Ava is a 2020 American action thriller directed by Tate Taylor, released on video on demand.
It follows Ava (Jessica Chastain), an assassin who ends up on the run after a job goes wrong.
The movie also stars John Malkovich, Common, Colin Farrell, Geena Davis, Jess Weixler, Diana Silvers, Joan Chen, and Ioan Gruffudd.
Tropes for the film:
- Action Girl: It's all about Jessica Chastain wrecking people with great prejudice.
- Bookends: In the opening scene, Ava is covertly followed by another woman. In the final scene, the viewer sees the same woman, Camille, tailing Ava after she had killed her father, Simon.
- Fatal Flaw: Addiction, when ever Ava does drugs or alcohol it makes her do stupid and reckless decisions.
- Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: Ava doing her business in a red dress was even put on the film's poster.
- One-Word Title: Which is also a Protagonist Title, Ava.
- Tagline: "Kill. Or Be Killed".
- Trading Bars for Stripes: The opening credits show that Ava was an overachieving honor roll student when she was involved in a serious car accident while driving under the influence. She ended up joining the Army to get away from her toxic family and the booze and the drugs, winding up in Special Forces.
