Netflix’s ‘Kate’ has most of the Cyberpunk 2077 storyline

Netflix has a # 1 new movie right now. Kate, with Mary Elizabeth Winstead as a revenge-hungry assassin.

It’s… not rated very well, but it never stopped anything from going up the Netflix charts. A common complaint about Kate is that he’s seen as a “spinoff” from other action movies, and yet he has a lot more in common with a very large and highly controversial video game: Cyberpunk 2077.

The similarities between Kate and Cyberpunk really stand out if you’ve played the game. To go through them I’m going to have to go into spoilers for both, so be warned.

• Kate’s main story is that an assassination job goes awry and she is poisoned, doomed to die in about a day. Cyberpunk 2077 has a scrap job gone awry that implants a chip in V’s head that … will also kill her in a short period of time.
• Kate and V both have Japanese criminal families to blame for their original work-related woes. They must fight their way through the city in search of answers. Kate seems doomed no matter what, given the nature of her poisoning, as V tries to find a cure, only to find that ultimately it doesn’t fully exist. Kate and V are constantly gripped by the effects of their impending death which causes them great pain and makes them vulnerable in combat.

• What Kate and V both discover is a power struggle within the Japanese criminal family. A younger member tries to usurp an older member, but in the end he gets his advantage. Kate and V are just collateral damage.
• Kate and V are both betrayed by the person who gave them the original job, V, a local fixer contact, Kate, her manager, Varrick, who is often referred to as … V.
• Kate and V end up storming the headquarters of the Crime Family skyscraper (most Cyberpunk endings take you through Arasaka Tower) for a final showdown against those who wronged her.

Beyond the storyline, there are obvious aesthetic similarities between the two, with the neon Tokyo and Night City and the resulting action sequences all feeling very cyberpunk, even though Kate is in the present, not the future. close.

There are differences, of course. While Kate and V both have “companions” in their doomed journeys, it’s hard to make many comparisons between a ghostly conscience of Johnny Silverhand for V and a young Japanese girl whose father was killed by Kate. But uh, almost everything else? Yeah, that’s pretty Cyberpunk.

I guess it’s probably just a lot of coincidences. As the critics say, “a dying fighter takes revenge” isn’t exactly a new concept as I’m pretty sure we’ve seen this unfold in at least three Jason Statham movies, but there is a lot, a lot to it. ‘other similarities beyond what I found amusing. If you’ve seen or experienced both, tell me I’m wrong here.

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