The movie begins violently as an apparently beaten Everly (Salma Hayek) retrieves a phone and gun that an unseen ally had hidden for her and shoots her attacker in the apartment in which she was being held. We quickly learn through phone calls that she was abducted 4 years earlier and forced to live there and provide sexual services for a Japanese gangster. We learn that she has cooperated because of threats that her mother and her young child would otherwise be hurt. We learn that her unseen ally was killed for helping her.
All of this might have made for an interesting first half of the movie. Instead, it is condensed into a few minutes of conversation and the movie essentially begins in the middle of the story. The rest of the movie is a combination of gun battles and sadistic torture as Everly tries to shoot her way out against numerous adversaries.
Everly looks like a low budget film with a very flimsy plot to justify director Joe Lynch's attempt to pack as much violence as possible into an hour and a half. There is nothing worthwhile about Everly. Don't waste your time on this garbage.
All of this might have made for an interesting first half of the movie. Instead, it is condensed into a few minutes of conversation and the movie essentially begins in the middle of the story. The rest of the movie is a combination of gun battles and sadistic torture as Everly tries to shoot her way out against numerous adversaries.
Everly looks like a low budget film with a very flimsy plot to justify director Joe Lynch's attempt to pack as much violence as possible into an hour and a half. There is nothing worthwhile about Everly. Don't waste your time on this garbage.