Vos works for a business which facilitates assassination and espionage at the request of high net worth individuals and businesses and is being groomed to replace her mentor Girder (Jennifer Jason Leigh).
Outside of work she struggles to relate to her now estranged husband and son, wearing her own persona much like she's one of her own targets.
We follow her as she takes the place of Colin Tate (Christopher Abbot) who is to alter the path of a corporate dynastic succession by eliminating those higher in the pecking order.
CW: Suicide, mutilation, grisly murder, loss of self
This is a nasty retro futuristic world where people like Vos do awful things for pots of money and it seeps into their souls. We are not at home to Freaky Friday style body swap fun times.
Riseborough is cadaverously alien, operating her own face like a mask and as the premise might suggest we also get a lot of Abbot as the 'mark' being Riseborough being Abbot. Both are excellent.
No movie like this will ever be about the job that went well so it's not too spoilery to say it doesn't here, with Vos and Tate vying bloodily for control of one body and consequences spiralling as plans go awry.
I did occasionally lose track of "who's driving now" and some of the scenes meant to signify the internal battles were very vague but thank fuck they didn't do the tired cliche of "superhero boss fight in the mind palace" you usually get.
A really taught nasty movie with some pretty gory moments, recommended 8/10. Definitely not jolly "Man with two brains" silliness it's grim.