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When a dangerous criminal from her past breaks out of prison, a former CIA agent must tap back into her lethal skills to protect her family.

Charlie Weber, Jered Cheatham, and Veronika Bozeman in Snatched (2024)

Kept my attention the whole movie... Not easy to do

Chris Stokes and Marques Houston have combined to make almost a movie a month on Tubi. From You&#39;re Not Alone, in which the hero watches a masked and gloved killer murder his wife and then come back for his daughter to the mancrush gone bad in The Ex Obsession and three of The Stepmother films, they&#39;ve laid claim to being the most prolific -- if not the best -- team making Tubi Originals. Angela (Veronika Bozeman, who was in another Stokes film Still Here) is a CIA agent who loses her husband Jason (Chris Moss) to what she thinks is a heart attack. As she raises her son Jason Jr. (Jered Cheatham at age 12, King Cheatham at age 7) with the platonic support of her agency partner Byron (Lance Gross, the Sleepy Hollow TV show), she finally decides to leave the life behind. That is, until one of her toughest cases comes back and Dmitri Merciano (Charlie Weber), the man who actually killed her husband, many of her fellow agents and nearly murdered her when he discovered that she had been working undercover to get him. Like so many Tubi Originals, this starts in the middle of the a story (in media res as a better reviewer would tell you) with Bob&#39;s Coffee Shop blowing up real good and nearly killing Angela. There are several big explosions in this, way bigger than you&#39;d expect for the usual budget Stokes and Houston receive. That explosion would be the second time the main bad guy kills someone she loves, as a bomb wipes out Byron the very day he decides to tell Angela how much he loves her. The bad guys also kill her mother Carolyn (Janet Hubert, the first Aunt Viv from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air) but not before she goes old lady Arnold on several of them before being killed by a female assassin with a katana. That said -- this movie is pretty fun and it&#39;s nice to see people of color and women represented throughout as total bad asses, good and bad characters included. There&#39;s also a lot of camaraderie between the agents, like a retiring agent named Lisette (Zulay Henao) and Vivian (Annie Ilonzeh), one of Angela&#39;s best friends in the agency who gets caught up in the war between our heroine and her arch enemy. Plus, Malik Yoba from New York Undercover is the leader of the good guys, Director Walker. There&#39;s also a date scene inside a Bob&#39;s Big Boy and man, I wish we still had those out here. And Stokes shows up at the end as Barry the mailman! Another victory for this team.

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Snatched

Intense thriller with nice bound of romance appropriate to the plot. Not sure how well it was promoted because the first time I heard of the movie was on Tubi. And I surely would&#39;ve watched it in the movie if I would have known. All the characters were well played. The cinematography was impressive. It was great seeing a female action, hero, and one who did such a good job. It was also great seeing on Viv do her thing in an action scene! It was realistic, full of action and suspense. The only thing I had a question about was how it started, that relationship scenario/scene I believe could have just been included later and it still would&#39;ve all made sense.

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Snatched

A budget! And fun!

Kept my attention the whole movie... Not easy to do

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