Code Name Banshee

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Code Name Banshee
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Directed by Jon Keeyes
Written byMatthew Rogers
Produced byJordan Beckerman
Jon Keeyes
Jordan Yale Levine
Shaun Sanghani
Starring
CinematographyAustin F. Schmidt
Edited byR.J. Cooper
Music by Ben Weinman
Production
companies
Yale Productions
Banshee Productions
Bee-Hive Productions
Highland Myst Entertainment
Lucky 13 Productions
SSS Film Capital
Distributed by Screen Media
Release date
  • July 1, 2022 (2022-07-01)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Code Name Banshee is a 2022 American action film directed by Jon Keeyes, starring Jaime King, Antonio Banderas and Tommy Flanagan. [1]

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Cast

Release

The film was released in theatres and on demand on 1 July 2022. [2]

Reception

Brent Simon of The A.V. Club wrote, "In the end, Code Name Banshee doesn’t have interesting ideas about who its characters are, or even wish to be. It’s a cliché-driven, rinse-and-repeat exercise in expended bullets, nothing more." [2]

Jeffrey Anderson of Common Sense Media rated the film 2 stars out of 5 and wrote that "While it's great to see King confident in a straight-up warrior role, there's so little actually going on in this flat action movie that it feels like the warmup act for a much better movie." [3]

Alex Saveliev of Film Threat gave the film a score of 4/10 wrote, "The feature is haphazardly edited, with the shot-from-afar fight scenes particularly egregious, clearly revealing stunt doubles. Everything is immersed in murky browns and washed-out grays; the film is so devoid of color that it’s almost black-and-white. The by-the-numbers script by Matthew Rogers careens along, every so-called twist and turn predictable. No flair or creativity seems to have been applied to any of it." [4]

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References

  1. Screen Media Buys ‘Code Name Banshee,’ Action-Thriller With Antonio Banderas, Jaime King
  2. 1 2 Simon, Brent (1 July 2022). "Code Name Banshee's assassin story lacks creative firepower". The A.V. Club . Retrieved 7 October 2023.
  3. Anderson, Jeffrey. "Code Name Banshee". Common Sense Media . Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  4. Saveliev, Alex (1 August 2022). "Code Name Banshee". Film Threat . Retrieved 7 October 2023.