#REVIEWS OF RED SPARROW MOVIE#
The movie is a thriller, but it’s also a kind of sexualized nightmare, and that’s the boldness of it. operative) that taps the audience’s intelligence rather than insulting it, “Red Sparrow” presents Lawrence’s character, Dominika Egorova, as a victim who is cast into a state of peril she has to dig her way out of, one ominous chess move at a time. Even when (of course) we’re being played.ĭirected by Francis Lawrence, who made the last three “Hunger Games” films, working from a script by Justin Haythe (based on the 2013 novel by Jason Matthews, a former C.I.A. We’re on her side, but more than that we’re in her head. She plays a spy as someone who acts out a role, but does so (paradoxically) by acting as little as possible she cues each scene to a different mood, leaving the audience in a constant state of discovery. In the elegantly tense and absorbing “ Red Sparrow,” on the other hand, Jennifer Lawrence portrays a Russian spy who’s a cunningly desperate human being - or, at least, enough of one that each scene rotates around the choices she makes, the way she appraises and seizes the destiny of the moment. Lawrence, in this movie, shows you what true screen stardom is all about. They’re slickly “empowered” women, yet it’s hard to distinguish that power from the thriller-video decadence of 21st-century action filmmaking. Red Sparrow is directed by Francis Lawrence and stars Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Mary-Louise Parker.In pumped-up espionage potboilers like “Atomic Blonde” or “Salt,” Charlize Theron and Angelina Jolie have gone through the motions of imitating male action stars at their most kick-ass grandiose. Dominika must now reconcile the person she was with the power she now commands, with her own life and everyone she cares about at risk, including an American CIA agent who tries to convince her he is the only person she can trust. After enduring the perverse and sadistic training process, she emerges as the most dangerous Sparrow the program has ever produced. That is why she finds herself manipulated into becoming the newest recruit for Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people like her to use their bodies and minds as weapons. When she suffers a career-ending injury, Dominika and her mother are facing a bleak and uncertain future. From the Studio:Ī devoted daughter determined to protect her mother at all costs.Ī prima ballerina whose ferocity has pushed her body and mind to the absolute limit.Ī master of seductive and manipulative combat. Love, violence, trust and betrayal are all part of the plot as she tries to determine where she should place her alliances. Of course, she meets her match in Nathaniel Nash (Joel Egerton), a CIA operative. Her physical strength and beauty make her a potent weapon, especially when the subjects of her assignments are male. Jennifer Lawrence stars as Dominika Egorova, a woman who is becomes a Russian special agent after her career as a ballerina comes to an abrupt end. Frequent portrayals of alcohol and tobacco use.
Infrequent use of scatological slang and profanity. Frequent use of the sexual expletive, sometimes in a sexual context. Infrequent breast and male frontal nudity in a non-sexual context.Īpproximately 31 instances of coarse and/or sexual language, including: Graphic portrayals of sexual violence (with nudity in torture/violent situation). Frequent portrayals of sexual activity, some in a BDSM context, with breast and buttock nudity, and some detail. Nudity in sexual situations (breasts, buttocks and/or genitalia). Frequent portrayals of sexual violence, with breast and buttock nudity, along with blood and detail. Several depictions of injury and physical assault. Graphic and explicit portrayals of torture and brutality. Frequent portrayals of gun, weapons, and hand-to-hand violence with blood and detail. Violent acts shown in realistic detail with blood and tissue damage. Why is Red Sparrow rated R? Red Sparrow is rated R by the MPAA for strong violence, torture, sexual content, language and some graphic nudity.
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