Painkiller Jane (2005) (TV)

User Rating:

5.3/10   

Director:

Sanford Bookstaver

Writers (WGA):

John Harrison (teleplay) &
Don Keith Opper (teleplay) ...

Release Date:

10 December 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Sci-Fi

Plot:

Jane, a young soldier, is exposed to a biochemical weapon that endows her with self-healing powers. She uses her abilities to fight crime while eluding the military.

Plot Keywords:

Biochemical Weapon | Vigilante | Marine | Crime Fighter | Superheroine

Cast

Emmanuelle Vaugier	...	Capt. Jane Elizabeth Browning ("Painkiller Jane")
Eric Dane	...	Nick
Richard Roundtree	...	Colonel Watts
Venus Terzo	...	Carla Browning
Walker Howard	...	Blue
Callum Keith Rennie	...	Mitchell
Tate Donovan	...	Dr. Graham Knight / Lucas Insley
Paula Brancati	...	Young Jane
Elicia Mackenzie	...	Young Carla
Martin Cummins	...	Sergeant Flynn
Conrad Whitaker	...	Homeboy
Nels Lennarson	...	Agent Thorpe
Aleks Paunovic	...	Sergeant Frizelle
Michael Eklund	...	Dude
Richard Harmon	...	Squeak

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

GEP Productions

Goofs:

Continuity: When Jane is escaping from the airport on Nick's motorcycle she is shot in the back. In the next scene the wound has inexplicably moved to her front, lower abdomen. It might have been explained as a through and through shot, thereby wounding both her back and front, but that couldn't have happened because the bullet was still insider her (we see the bullet expel itself from the wound).

Quotes:

Blue: Dude, I'm telling you, look, there's something weird about her.
Nick: What, like Jerry Springer weird?
Blue: No, no, no, no, no. I'm talking E.T., Area 51, brother from another planet type weird.

Movie Connections:

Remade as "Painkiller Jane" (2007)

Clichéd action film.

This is an OK film as long as you aren't expecting much, definitely leave your brain at the door.

The plot is nothing new, no original thought here. The acting is actually quite good although it's sometimes hard to judge the acting when the dialogue is this bad.

The main problem is that all the "surprises" are obvious, you won't be surprised by anything in this film, the plot twists can be see long before they arrive and they have all been used elsewhere.

The plot is also a bit nonsensical with characters behaviour, the villains in particular, not being believable.

The directing is terrible with annoying visual effects thrown in for no real reason.

All that said this is watchable trash if you are looking to kill a bit of time.