To make matters worse, all the actors playing Russians put on laughable “Moose and Squirrel” accents while Edgerton struggles to put on a credible American accent. I’m not sure that was the smartest of career choices to make. If you’ve been wondering what J-Law looks like without any clothes on, now’s your chance to find out. RED SPARROW is really nothing more than spy porn. And that’s the bottom line with this film. The audience at my screening broke out in laughter at that scene. Yes, she wants Nash to notice her but it’s hardly a subtle lure. Second, also at the pool, she wears the skimpiest of swimsuits to do laps.
Moreover, I believe her hair should have turned green from the chlorine at that point. I’m no expert but I doubt a home dye kit could produce such good results. To make matters worse, Dominika does a few things that no well-trained agent would ever do: First, she dies her hair the most perfect shade of blonde and then she goes swimming in a pool. Granted, Dominika is highly motivated for reasons that are revealed in the story (and the trailer) but even these are never fully fleshed out to be believable. The whole premise that a ballerina, after just a few lessons in seduction, lock picking and target shooting, could hold her own against seasoned agents is slightly ridiculous.
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I’ve got to suspect that the book is better than the movie because the movie really is high-class trash.
RED SPARROW is based on the 2013 award-winning novel by Jason Matthews, himself a former CIA operative. Using both her body and her brains, she gets close to Nash while trying to keep her predacious uncle and the SVR at bay. She must go to Budapest to seduce CIA operative Nate Nash (Joel Edgerton, LOVING EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS) and learn who his mole inside the SVR, the successor to the USSR’s KGB, is. After a quick stint at “Sparrow School” where she proves herself to be something less than the best student in the class, she is assigned to her first mission and it’s a big one. Now, the 27-year-old, who is reported to be the world’s highest paid actress these days, has teamed up with her former HUNGER GAMES director, Francis Lawrence, to play a Russian prima ballerina-turned-lethal weapon in the post-Cold War spy thriller, RED SPARROW.Īfter Bolshoi ballerina Dominika Egorova (Lawrence) breaks her leg ending her stage career, she is recruited by her uncle (Belgian actor Matthias Schoenaerts, THE DANISH GIRL) to become a Russian intelligence operative who uses her body as a weapon. Others, like PASSENGERS, have flopped at the box office. Some of her projects, like MOTHER! have worked… sort of. While this is obviously a Jennifer vehicle and she's always been interesting to watch the film's narrative just never picks up steam - and we're left with a bleak, perpetually tepid, high stakes espionage story.Kudos to Jennifer Lawrence ( JOY AMERICAN HUSTLE) for taking risks with her post-HUNGER GAMES career. The usually impressive Joel Edgerton (Australian) is on board as an American agent but even he's a limp duck, floundering in this film. And besides Jennifer, there is a host of British actors putting on inconsistent, muddled Russian accents. There's gratuitous violence, there's angry sex, there's hinted at incest, graphic torture and double-crossing but there isn't a lot of action, and there's no real investing in the characters. I think watching grass grow might hold even more excitement! As this Red Sparrow definitely isn't that riveting film treatment. I'll confess to not having read Matthews so given the popularity of his spy thrillers, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and believe there are riveting film adaptations down the road for his novels.
So is it a coincidence that Red Sparrow opens with Jennifer portraying Russian prima ballerina Dominika Egorova (echoes of Black Swan?) who after a career-ending injury, is coerced to join the Sparrow program, where young adults are turned into masters of seduction and murder for espionage purposes? To be honest, I was trying to create such connections and linkages with this triangle of the two Lawrences and Aronofsky if only to keep my mind preoccupied and avoid paying attention to what was happening onscreen - or what sadly wasn't happening. A post shared by Red Sparrow Movie on at 2:02pm PST
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