The Princess

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The Princess

R

2022

1h 34m

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Fantasy

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When a beautiful, strong-willed princess refuses to wed the cruel sociopath to whom she is betrothed, she is kidnapped and locked in a remote tower of her father's castle. With her scorned, vindictive suitor intent on taking her father's throne, the princess must protect her family and save the kingdom.

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Critics Consensus

Joey King is a credible action star and Princess, but she deserves a better kingdom than this uneven vehicle that gets weighed down by a clunky script and shabby production values.

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Mick LaSalle

San Francisco Chronicle

King is a blast, with the fierce intensity of French actress Sara Forestier, whom she strongly resembles. And this movie is worthy of King’s exertions.

Rated: 3/4

Jul 18, 2022

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Brent Simon

AV Club

A yawningly simplistic and roundly inconsequential action movie, The Princess lacks, on a narrative level, the certitude and clarity of purpose of its title character.

Rated: D

Jul 1, 2022

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Amy Nicholson

New York Times

Doesn’t hark back to ye olde European fairy tales but rather to the feminist revenge thrillers of the 1970s: works of exploitation and wuxia cinema where warrior women stuck it to the man. With knives.

Rated: B-

Jul 1, 2022

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Rubén Rosario

MiamiArtZine

Kiet has crafted a violent yet strangely wholesome anomaly: a mindless but enjoyably junky East-meets-West hodgepodge that stokes our bloodlust while staying true to its storybook setting.

Oct 2, 2023

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Pramit Chatterjee

Digital Mafia Talkies

The Princess is a tongue-in-cheek, balls-to-the-walls, action extravaganza.

Rated: 4/5

Jul 20, 2023

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Daisy Leigh-Phippard

Screen Queens

It’s a story somewhat at the mercy of its budget, but one that celebrates sisterhood, ambition and centuries of fairy tales about women finding a way to escape their perils.

Jan 25, 2023

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Jelisije J

If you have to turn your brain off to enjoy every scene of this film than Im sorry its a gigantic waste of time.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

07/11/25

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Bruce D

Disney Princess girl-power meets Asian sword-action movie! One of the best YouTube movies I've seen! Tho 20th Century Fox is the studio, this has much more of the feel of a Disney+ movie, a rougher, more action oriented Disney Princess tale. The talent in front of and behind the camera all understand this is familiar territory, a mash--up of familiar tropes. The only solution to this is--as always--conviction, commitment and excellent craftsmanship in every department. The Princess has all of these. I'm curious where the castle set or real castle was. Most of the crew is Bulgarian. Google AI says the main castle and castle sets were shot in Sofia, Bulgaria. It's common to see multi-million dollar sets made for much less in studios in this part of the world. If the villain, Dominic Cooper looks familiar, he plays Tony Stark in the Marvel Universe. Joey King was the unexpected action villain in Bullet Train the same year this was released.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

07/05/25

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Glafira Regina O

The plot gets a big fat zero, the characters are completely undeveloped, and the whole story—what actually happened and who this princess even is—is told through a few scattered flashbacks. Basically, it's just an hour and a half of straight-up Chinese kung fu where a girl who's been stabbed, slashed, and probably hit by a meteor still refuses to die.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

07/01/25

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Chris M

Think Kill Bill meets a Disney Princess. It's bloody, violent and fun. A movie that doesn't take itself seriously and relies on you not doing so either. It's very clearly a thinly vailed plot to sting together a load of action set pieces. Thankfully they know this and have made sure this is about 90% action packed chaos, so it doesn't leave you time to slow down and think about anything, Joey King is fantastic in this and sells the action pieces perfectly, if she doesn't get more action roles from this I'd be a crime.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

06/28/25

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Ben T

If you're looking for complex characters with a believable story, this is not it.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

12/30/24

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Michael M

It’s a fun, entertaining movie.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/12/24

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Synopsis

When a beautiful, strong-willed princess refuses to wed the cruel sociopath to whom she is betrothed, she is kidnapped and locked in a remote tower of her father's castle. With her scorned, vindictive suitor intent on taking her father's throne, the princess must protect her family and save the kingdom.

Director: Le-Van Kiet
Producer: Neal H. Moritz, Toby Jaffe, Derek Kolstad
Screenwriter: Ben Lustig, Jake Thornton
Production Co: Original Film, 20th Century Studios
Rating: R (Strong/Bloody Violence|Some Language)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 1, 2022
Runtime: 1h 34m

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