We will always have Angola... Janet McTeer is the best professional killer on screen you have seen in ages

in the year's best supporting role......but not for Albert Nobbs (for which she might get an Academy Award nomination).
Instead for Cat Run, a little silly adventure (but one that does not pretend to be serious art and has lots of humour-often working/ sometimes being plainly poor, and also has beautiful Montenegro locations and Paz Vega as a callgirl that is chased by all European professional killers and the US Secretary of Defence and two akward private detectives, etc).
But there is one thing in this movie that makes it a must-see and it is Helen Bingham, the professional killer played by McTeer, the strongest similar professional seen on screen since Leon, and that was 17 years ago. McTeer plays the Gary Oldman part for the first half, and then the Jean reno part for the second half, but remains a ruthless killer throughout. And she plays the role with such charm, mixing ruthlessness with humor in a perfect way (watch the fight clip below against the Bourne triolgy veteran Karel Roden). Not just a caricature, mind- watch how she instills sentiment in her character, particularly in a small moment before visiting her...mother ("Don't tell her I am smoking").
McTeer has won a Tony award in an Ibsen play, has been nominated for an Oscar losing to Hilary Swank, but her film presence remains limited. She should follow at Judy Dench's steps, and start gracing the screen with her charisma