The Princess

Name: The Princess
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, Fantasy
Released: July 1, 2022
Rating: 43
Cast: Bozhidar Hristov, Ivo Arakov, Joey King, Martin Taskov, Thanh Van Ngo

2022

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Hulu | Release Date (Streaming): July 1, 2022 | R

Starring: Bozhidar Hristov, Ivo Arakov, Joey King, Martin Taskov, Thanh Van Ngo, Vasil Toshev

Summary: When a beautiful, strong-willed princess (Joey King) refuses to wed the cruel sociopath to whom she is betrothed, she is kidnapped and locked in a remote tower of her father's castle. With her scorned, vindictive suitor (Dominic Cooper) intent on taking her father's throne, the princess must protect her family and save the kingdom.

Director: Le-Van Kiet

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Thriller, Fantasy

Rating: R

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Jesse Hassenger

Jul 1, 2022

What makes The Princess so surprisingly fun is its commitment to a hooky premise. Read full review

Andrew Crump

Jul 1, 2022

Backstory is fine. Seeing King introduce scores of anonymous leering henchmen to their varying deaths is better. Read full review

Michael Ordoña

Jul 1, 2022

The Princess is an unabashedly feminist action-adventure in which the central character rises from her dormancy to slash the patriarchy. It couldn’t be more timely, and it’s a good time too. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Brian Tallerico

Jul 1, 2022

The action here, directed by Le-Van Kiet, is reasonably entertaining, but everything that’s hung on that skeleton feels remarkably thin. Read full review

Brian Lowry

Jul 1, 2022

For anyone wondering why "The Princess" is premiering on Hulu in the US, not sister service Disney+, the movie answers that in the first five minutes, when the title character brutally dispatches a pair of guards sent into the tower where she's being held. While the timing seems right for a princess who rescues herself, there's precious little substance to this violent fantasy, featuring Joey King figuratively letting down her hair. Read full review

Leah Greenblatt

Jul 8, 2022

King is an engaging actress to watch, if she only had an actual backstory, but the movie is so relentlessly romp-y and blood-splattered it quickly becomes numbing. Read full review

Lena Wilson

Jul 1, 2022

The Princess somehow manages to be both under-written and insultingly obvious. Read full review

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IzzyPoP

Jul 2, 2022

This movie was great and it sucks its getting stepped on by people with nothen to say except that they don’t like to see a woman stabbing some nasty men in the face. Also its hilarious and made me cry so like yeah watch it.

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TheHarlequin

Jul 5, 2022

Great little action film, simple story, amusing antics. A princess wakes up locked in a tower and has to fight their way out, floor by floor.

If you enjoy films like The Raid, Dredd or Hardcore Henry with fast brutal action, this is a fun medieval version.

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turdlemckay

Jul 4, 2022

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Wow this was so good I did not believe it was hulu. this movie was great. Action packed and less nagging message as much as realistic fighting like what was seen in atomic blonde.… Expand

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Jones76

Sep 10, 2022

I honestly don't get the hate this little gem gets. It is a small, entertaining fantasy action flick with a great female lead. The story is a nice twist on fairy tales (but there is not much of a story), this thing is not rich in dialogue, it is no oscar material, but it is fun!

I reallyI honestly don't get the hate this little gem gets. It is a small, entertaining fantasy action flick with a great female lead. The story is a nice twist on fairy tales (but there is not much of a story), this thing is not rich in dialogue, it is no oscar material, but it is fun!

I really really liked the action scenes, I think they are the best and most "realistic" female fighting scenes since Atomic Blonde. The movie invests time in the character showing us that she trained from childhood to be a warrior and her skills are hard earned, she is no Mary Sue. Her fighting style is based on evasion, blocking, speed and outright agression, they don't pull a 355 here where a tiny girl throws men twice her size across the room. When fighting heavily armored opponents she actually goes for the weak points in the armor, I think that is the first time I see this on screen, this how you do this in real life. And she gets hit, she gets hurt and pays in blood. If you compare this to Guyladrial, this little movie is so far ahead of billion dollar production, its hard to grap. And finally, Joes King has facial expression compared to you know who.… Expand

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Ralfbergs

Nov 17, 2022

I found the action scenes quite nice, albeit unreallistic, but its just a movie so doesn't matter. Plot-wise though it offered really little as most of the movie was just one long action scene

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dharma

Jul 29, 2022

Entertaining but slight little actioner has a great premise, but is simply a string of action sequences done better in previous films, but set in a medieval setting. Kudos for Joey King as she gives her A game especially in her action sequences. A pretty good watch on streaming.

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Elleroux

Jul 11, 2022

I expect better movie choices fro JK. Movie was boring, i skipped through most of it.

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

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