Black Site (2022)

Plot of Black Site: We meet Abby Trent, a CIA analyst, at the funeral of her husband and daughter who have been killed by a bomb in Turkey. Thereafter she manages to be assigned to  black site underground somewhere in the Middle East where eight man are held captive. One she feels has the answer to who killed her relatives. Some of the military contractors at the facility are keen to use extreme measures to get the prisoners to talk. Abby meanwhile determines that the bomb was due to a drone attack. Back in Turkey an assassin Hatchet is captured and sent to the facility. Hatchet escapes during interrogation and begins to kill off the personnel in the facility, and after the boss is stabbed to death, Abby is left in charge. Things get worse as communications and electricity are cut off and an automatic destruction sequence is set in motion.

Content: No sex or nudity, or drinking or drug taking. Abby is seen at the funeral giving a bit of an oration and thereafter arguing with her boss at Langley. Once in the black site she argues a lot with the ex-military who man it, and interrogates an old guy who might know something, and crucially sends a message back to the CIA that she thinks the bomb was actually a drone strike. Thereafter Hatchet is captured at a site where he has killed a lot of people. There is some unpleasant interrogation. Once Hatchet escapes he kills people in very unpleasant ways and no-one seems to be able to stand up to him. Abby is effectively left alone to confront him, and it seems that because the site has been compromised it is to be destroyed, because after all it is illegal.

A View: No-one liked this outing much although it is an interesting take that the person with the unbeatable combat skills is for once a villain. Michelle Monaghan does her best, but really it is not her sort of thing. I have seen a lot worse. It has a plot, action, motivation and a conclusion. And the executions are so unpleasant that I had to look away at times. So maybe a watch while doing something else.

Fun Fact: There is only one Trivia item at IMDb.