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Red Sparrow
(2018)
5.50
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Plot/Story

4.00

Characters

4.00

Acting

7.00

Cinematography

8.00

Production Design

8.00

Sound

8.00

Execution

3.00

Emotional Impact

2.00

Overview: Prima ballerina Dominika Egorova faces a bleak and uncertain future after she suffers an injury that ends her career. She soon turns to Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people to use their minds and bodies as weapons. Dominika emerges as the most dangerous Sparrow after completing the sadistic training process. As she comes to terms with her new abilities, she meets a CIA agent who tries to convince her that he is the only person she can trust.

Director: Francis Lawrence

Release Date: 2018-02-28

Genres: Thriller Mystery


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Red Sparrow seems to think that a confusing story is the same as a complicated story. It's clear that Justin Haythe set out to tell a new version of the worn out Cold War Russian spy/espionage film and on some levels he succeeded. The dialog is pretty good and Francis Lawrence got some solid acting out of the cast and the cinematography was acceptable but Red Sparrow is so slow and hopes that constantly spinning the audience around can replace any real action or solid character development. Jennifer Lawrence's character (who sports an absolutely terrible and inconsistent Russian accent) isn't well defined and to a certain point we are supposed to be on the edge of our seat wondering who's side she is on and what her motives are, but the level at which she unexpectedly pivots and makes terrible decisions is just plain confusing. The basic idea is that she was a top class ballerina who is forced into retirement after an injury. Her uncle talks her into Sparrow training where she learns to use her sexuality as a weapon in her assignments. I was expecting a lot more action, but Lawrence doesn't get any physical training, so I guess it makes sense not to have big choreographed fight scenes, but the political espionage just isn't strong enough or well written enough to keep my attention. A show like Game of Thrones has solid characters like Little Finger and great writers who know how to craft a mutli-layer "3D Chess" level of politicking and deception and espionage that we can have runs of multiple episodes with no action and we eat it up and ask for more. Red Sparrow is just not well written enough to pull off an espionage/spy movie with out having action scene tent poles. We get a couple of torture scenes that have some poorly executed gore (there's a scene where someone is being skinned on the back of the shoulder and they show it from the side and and even when we see the area, it isn't skinned at first; it takes them a few cuts before someone realized to do the makeup on the area) but that's it. If you make a straight comedy movie and don't write in any drama, your movie better be pretty damn funny. Red Sparrow only has its dense, confusing spy/espionage story and its just not goof enough to fuel the movie. Lawrence's actions often don't make sense and the twists are poorly executed. Red Sparrow is a well acted movie that is technically fine, but it's not enough to save the hollow and muddled story.

By : Greg Mueller | Date : 5 years ago




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