Catherine Zeta-Jones stars in Prime Video's Kill Jackie, an action-packed, gritty drama involving pretty intense gunfights and car chases. Living her best life and taking advantage of a freeport’s tax-free perks, Jackie Price has built herself a bit of an empire by becoming an art dealer. However, her introduction to the audience in the opening scene doesn’t exactly scream class and riches.
It all begins with an elevator scene. It looks like Jackie is fresh out of a hospital bed with a bandage wrapped around her head. She has a candy bowl in her head that she empties and prepares to use as a weapon. As the elevator door dings open, she sees a man and immediately hits him in the face with the bowl, sending him flying. She hits him again and gets on his back, but before we can know more, Jackie’s voiceover freezes the scene.
Jackie doesn’t want to be introduced as a crazy lady who jumps people, so she takes the viewers back two days earlier when she was on top of everything. Jackie is a big-time fine art dealer who benefits from goods imported into freeports, which are exempt from taxes until they're moved out.
She sells paintings to a specific clientele, inviting them to her warehouse and selling to the highest bidder. Her assistant, Charlie, handles the technical details, and Jackie does the hard part: collecting rare pieces for millions of millions of dollars in return. Life is great for Jackie.
The next day after a successful auction, Jackie is busy shopping in London. She talks to Charlie on the phone and inquires about the funds' clearance on the triptych. She gives her the all-clear but then inquires about severing connections with last night’s bidders. Charlie remembers she didn’t but lies to Jackie and later discards the SIM cards from the burner phones.
A few minutes later, Jackie arrives at her apartment building but sees a crowd surrounding the entrance. She learns from the police officer on her payroll named Leo that Jackie’s neighbor has been shot to death in his apartment. Didi was Jackie’s old neighbor, but he had no reason for someone to come in and shoot him in the head.
Right off the bat, Jackie thinks the murder had something to do with her because she lives opposite Didi. She implies that the whole ordeal seems too fishy to be just about killing an old guy. It must definitely be about her because it seems very likely that the killers just got the wrong room.
Jackie’s life takes a drastic turn
Leo and Jackie argue about who exactly is supposed to be the center of this murder. Since Jackie has a habit of making everything about her, Leo thinks she’s leaning way into the situation because she’s bored. Well, Jackie doesn’t like to admit it, but she does feel that her day-to-day life has become mundane. When she visits her friend Billy, he asks her the same thing, and she confesses that she’s bored to death.
However, she wants him to find out if there’s any chatter related to the murder. Jackie leaves to go to her apartment, where she’s suddenly ambushed by men in ski masks. They hit her on the head hard, and she falls down. She then hears one of the men make a call to someone, informing them they’re nearly done with her, but as he speaks, the gun gets jammed and he’s unable to fire.
The delay gives Jackie the perfect opportunity to test her security system. She presses a button, and the art collection on her wall slides up, revealing a couple of machine guns built into it. Since Jackie’s on the ground, she’s safe from the onslaught of the guns, which kill all the men and destroy most of her apartment.
Later, Charlie arrives with a woman who seems to be paid security for Jackie. They rescue her and take her to the hospital, but Jackie keeps humming a tune. When she comes to, she finds a worried Charlie by her side. Jackie tells her that maybe her old life has finally caught up with her. She wasn’t always in art; her money came from elsewhere.
Jackie tells Charlie she used to be in the coke business. She was in the ‘Big League’ making big money, but she also got involved with dangerous people. When she wanted out of the business, people came after her. She eventually got rid of that life, but it was a messy affair. She’s afraid that someone has finally located her and wants her dead.
Charlie isn’t too thrilled about the situation, but she assures Jackie that she’ll be by her side. Charlie gives Jackie her stuff, including a burner phone, and leaves the room to get her tea. Jackie immediately seizes the opportunity to run away from the hospital. She calls someone and ends up at Hollingford Court for a Mr. Lindon.
When she’s not allowed to enter, she grabs the candy bowl and takes the elevator to the fourth floor. As the elevator door opens, she beats the man in front of her and bites his ear off until she’s called to Mr. Lindon’s office. She cuts to the chase and accuses the man of ordering the hit on her. In her defense, she remembered the key tones on the phone when one of the men called someone while attempting to shoot her.
The man is confused, but he looks guilty as well, which confirms that he had a hand in it in some way. All Jackie wants is for him to tell her who ordered the hit. She threatens Lindon to reveal the names by tomorrow, or she’ll unleash her wrath on him. Later, she’s arrested outside the building and taken to the police station.
Leo is shocked to see the footage of her biting off a man’s ear and warns Jackie that this is something even he can’t deal with. Jackie argues she pays Leo a fortune to handle difficult situations such as this, but he seems underconfident. Thankfully, Jackie’s lawyer, Sam, arrives and attempts to defend her, but all his efforts go in vain when he sees the footage and is in awe of what he has to deal with.
Fortunately, Jackie is released, but Sam isn’t sure how, as her tax lawyer he’s supposed to defend her when she’s clearly in the wrong. While Sam attempts to knock some sense into Jackie, she’s more occupied with professing her one-sided love to her lawyer, but he isn’t willing to encourage her. Sam advises Jackie to hire an actual attorney who can fight her case and focus on getting out of trouble.
Later, Jackie calls an acquaintance named Tucker, who apparently brings her buyers. At first, she accuses him of selling her out for a price, but then she asks him to get a single client who would buy her entire collection. She wants to get liquid fast without drawing attention. Tucker thinks it’s a difficult task, but he can pull it off if Jackie raises his fee to 20%. As much as she hates it, Jackie agrees because she’s desperate.
After dealing with Tucker, Jackie returns to her apartment to find Karenina, her paid ‘cleaner,’ taking care of the bodies she left in her wake. She asks Karenina if she can do personal security for her, but she refuses, saying she’s already collaborating with a new party called the Seven Demons. Jackie’s impressed, knowing Karenina is in the Big Leagues now, but still requests that she look into someone who can be hired quickly.
However, Karenina suggests she can call the Seven Demons on Jackie’s behalf for hired help. Jackie agrees, and Karenina makes the call, but when she hangs up, she informs Jackie that the deal isn’t going to happen. It turns out that someone employed the Seven Demons and Jackie was the target; therefore, by default, Karenina is required to act on behalf of her employers and kill Jackie.
She’s pretty nonchalant about everything and isn’t fazed by the fact that she’s supposed to kill the woman in front of her. Karenina informs Jackie that her contract starts at midnight; until then, they can remain on friendly terms. Also, she advises Jackie to use the time and make a run for it while she can.
Backstabbing gets Jackie into troubled waters
The scene intercuts from Jackie’s apartment to a bloodied man in a room who has a knife in his head. Jackie’s voiceover explains how the Seven Demons are considered professional, ruthless assassins who enjoy torturing people. They are genuine psychopaths who go after their kills one by one.
Jackie grabs her ‘emergency’ coat from the closet filled with cash, credit cards, and passports. She looks in the mirror and dreads thinking about whoever hired the demons because that someone not only wants her gone, but they want her to suffer in the worst possible way.
Somewhere in Billy’s office, one of the Seven Demons arrives to ask questions about Jackie Price’s whereabouts. Billy resists for a few minutes but is ultimately killed, proving that these people will leave a trail of bodies if it means they can reach Jackie. Meanwhile, Jackie meets up with Leo in an alley, who’s surprised to see she hasn’t gone into hiding yet.
Jackie admits she’s making arrangements, and she also made calls to ensure that Leo’s kids are looked after. She will get him on the plane to Brazil, and they can say goodbye to whatever they have built here. While talking, they remember the good times they shared when they met about 20 years ago. Jackie recalls how one time Leo let himself into her apartment to cook a Christmas turkey for her.
However, she remembers Leo never gave her apartment keys back; instead, he gave them to the men who came to kill her. Leo is flustered and keeps denying the accusation, but the evidence just keeps piling against him. Jackie mentions how the men had to break Didi’s door to get inside, but they didn’t need to force Jackie’s because they already had the keys.
She demands to know why he would burn her like that, and it turns out it was just all about the money. He was offered a higher price for his betrayal, and as he says, once a dirty cop, always a dirty cop. However, Jackie still offers Leo to join her if he agrees to do things right but as he reaches for his gun claiming he’s in too deep, Jackie shoots him on the spot.
Jackie plans to escape via her private jet with Charlie and Sam. The latter has no idea what’s happening and demands to return to his home when Jackie shows him that his office and house have been blown up, and his life is in danger. In the end, they all get on the plane and make their way to Spain. Jackie explains she’s going to sell all her artwork, make money, and be on the run for the rest of their lives.
Charlie’s on board, but Sam nearly has a breakdown hearing that ‘biblical’ horrors will follow if they are caught. They arrive at Jackie’s warehouse, where she admits to Charlie that she hasn’t felt this alive in the last 20 years; however, before she can feel anything else, the gang is thrown aback by a powerful blast that engulfs the entire warehouse. Right before her eyes, Jackie’s entire life collection and moneymaking assets burn in flames, but instead of having a meltdown, Jackie smiles as if something dormant inside her has just sprung back to life.
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