The Mother is a decently shot and executed thriller. It may lean a little too into the "mama bear" cliche for my tastes, but it's solid entry into the reformed former assassin subgenre. I appreciated how it negotiated some of the complexities of adoption issues focusing on the love a birth mother carries for her adopted child and the importance of that adopted family to the child and its other members.
You're not going to be be too surprised by anything in The Mother and while there are touching moments nothing here should be too challenging emotionally. The film relies heavily on a wolf mother and her cubs as metaphor that feels a bit heavy handed. But the film's story fills out its runtime sufficiently without dragging. And Lopez does a convincing job in her role.
For a light easy watch, you can do worse than The Mother.
The Mother
Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Joseph Fiennes, Omari Hardwick, Gael Garcia Bernal
Director: Niki Caro
Writers: Misha Green, Andrea Berloff, Peter Craig
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