Not each and every film Salma Hayek has been involved in has held the gravitas as some of her movies such as From Dusk Till Dawn, Frida, The Hitman’s Bodyguard, Savages, and Magic Mike’s Last Dance. One of the films in Hayek’s vast library that didn’t receive much play time is Everly.

Produced in 2015, the action thriller movie harkens back to Salma Hayek’s Desperado days when she routinely found action films to her liking. Everly sees Hayek playing the title character, a woman who is trapped in 𝑠e𝑥ual slavery, relentlessly abused and assaulted as she is forced to work for Japanese crime lord Taiko.

Things go from horrible to unfathomable for Everly when the vicious crime lord discovers that she has been working with the police to try to bring down his criminal empire.

Check out Salma Hayek in the trailer for Everly:

Taiko sends enforcers to her apartment, thinking they will have no problem eliminating Everly. But little do the thugs know, she has a surprise in store for them. Everly has hidden a gun, she knows how to use it, and does so with lethal results.

But Taiko is not even close to being done with Everly. He wants to make her suffer as if forcing her into prostitution wasn’t bad enough. He sends more hired killers after her and also offers a nice bounty to the other prostitutes in her building if they will take her out.

Complicating matters for Everly is her mother and young daughter. Everly tries to explain to her mother the danger they face, but her mother is a stubborn lady and refuses to go anywhere without Everly in tow.

Now, Everly is forced to fight for her freedom, as well as that of her mother and her daughter. The action is tense, and the violence is gratuitous but is fun to watch Salma Hayek turn back the clock and become the badass we’ve seen in the past.