As a result, it can be tough for viewers to figure out what each character does or does not know. Though the film is a successful thriller, it fails to find a balance between maintaining suspense and withholding useful information from the audience. Lawrence portrays characters who live inside their own minds well, but this ability does not do the audience many favors. The film’s violence is gratuitous, as are Dominika’s motives.
Red sparrow movie#
In “Red Sparrow,” however, the graphic scenes are disruptive and give the movie a stop-start feel. Torture is omnipresent throughout “Red Sparrow,” and the cinematography for torture scenes is reminiscent of those in “Atomic Blonde.” The difference between the two films, though, is that Charlize Theron is a part of the action in a very busy film. As a result, the relationship often comes across more as a slightly awkward business partnership than it does anything else. The involvement of the CIA, notably an operative named Nate played by Joel Edgerton, complicates her travels around Europe.Īlthough the chemistry between Lawrence and Edgerton has potential, director Francis Lawrence refrains from putting any relationship between them at the forefront of the story.
When Dominika leaves the confines of her oddly uniformed “whore school,” as she refers to it, the plot twists and turns in ways that are sometimes difficult to keep up with. The ominous nature of the Sparrows is made even more explicit when trainees are told their bodies belong to the state.
The script often reads like a movie sponsored by the Department of Defense, prioritizing political agenda over subtlety. It quickly becomes apparent that their blood relation will not inhibit Vanya, played by Matthias Schoenaerts, from putting his niece in harm’s way.Īfter sending Dominika to a politician to extract information from him, Vanya sends her to a school for “Sparrows,” Russia’s intelligence agents who are trained as seductresses to gain information.Īfter this point, the film’s political themes begin to reveal themselves bluntly. She breaks her leg in an accident while performing and goes to her uncle Vanya - likely a reference to the Anton Chekhov play, “Uncle Vanya” - for financial help. The movie opens with classical Russian ballet music, and viewers are introduced to a ballet dancer for the Bolshoi named Dominika Egorova, played by Jennifer Lawrence. Unfortunately, the film’s captivating plot is not enough to compensate for its awkward character dynamics and over-the-top political messages. On paper, “Red Sparrow,” a spy movie based on a book by the same name, written by a former CIA operative seems to have all the ingredients of a blockbuster staple.
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