Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Breakneck
- Intensity
- Extreme
- Complexity
- Simple
- Violence
- Graphic
- visceral
- frantic
- lurid
- late night action marathon
- grindhouse movie night
What critics said
Critics broadly found Joe Lynch's stylish direction and Salma Hayek's committed performance outweighed by thin writing and excessively sleazy violence.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Everly turns years of sexual slavery and torment into a personal campaign against the Yakuza boss and his assassins.
The open contract brings successive waves of killers into Everly's apartment, making the room-to-room defense the central engine.
The film foregrounds destructive weaponry, assassins, sexual exploitation, and deliberately lurid violence.
Everly single-handedly confronts armed male attackers with an arsenal while protecting her family.
Films like Everly, and why
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
shared vigilante revenge structure, female-led action, confined setting, and extreme stylization
Guns Akimbo
shared girls-with-guns energy, pulpy violence, comic-book spectacle, and female empowerment
The Raid: Redemption
shared single-location siege mechanics, relentless assassins, and visceral survival tension
Death Proof
shared exploitation-inflected action, revenge themes, and stylized brutality
Movie Details
- Director
- Joe Lynch
- Release Date
- 2015-02-26
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Rating
- 5.5 / 10 (597)
Cast
- Salma Hayek Pinault
- Hiroyuki Watanabe
- Laura Cepeda
- Togo Igawa
- Akie Kotabe
- Gabriella Wright
- Caroline Chikezie
- Jennifer Blanc-Biehn
- Jelena Gavrilović
- Aisha Ayamah
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Amazon Prime Video, Shudder Amazon Channel, Shudder Apple TV channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, MovieSphere+ Amazon Channel
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Everly about?
- A brutally stylized apartment siege turns a sexually enslaved woman into a one-person war against the Yakuza forces hunting her family.
- What is Everly like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Everly as breakneck, its intensity as extreme and its storytelling as simple.
- Is Everly violent?
- Yes. Ember rates the violence in Everly as graphic.
- What did critics think of Everly?
- Critics broadly found Joe Lynch's stylish direction and Salma Hayek's committed performance outweighed by thin writing and excessively sleazy violence.
- Which films are like Everly?
- Films with a similar feel include Kill Bill: Vol. 1, Guns Akimbo, The Raid: Redemption, and Death Proof.
- How long is Everly?
- Everly runs 93 minutes.
- Where can I watch Everly?
- In United States, Everly streams on Amazon Prime Video, Shudder Amazon Channel, Shudder Apple TV channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, MovieSphere+ Amazon Channel.
