![]() As a result, Dominika is swiftly recruited by army officer Korchnoi (Jeremy Irons) and is sent to Budapest as bait for CIA operative Nathaniel Nash (Joel Edgerton) in order to find out who his Russian mole is.Ĭoming fresh off the heels of David Leitch’s brilliantly received female led cold war thriller, Atomic Blonde, Red Sparrow sadly lacks all the cool and kick-ass attitude of the former. ![]() After witnessing something she shouldn’t have, Dominika has no other choice but to join Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service which trains its students into the art of seduction and teaches them to use their minds and bodies as weapons. Adapted to the screen by Francis Lawrence ( The Hunger Games, I Am Legend) from Jason Matthews’ 2013 novel of the same name, Red Sparrow tells the story of a prima ballerina turned spy, and offers a problematic narrative centring around a needlessly sadistic storyline, which while being deeply engaging, still manages to leave you with a bad taste in the mouth.Īfter suffering a career-ending injury on stage, Dominika Egorova (Lawrence) a highly talented Bolshoi Ballet dancer is roped in by her duplicitous state official uncle Vanya (Matthias Schoenaerts) to act as a honey-trap for a political rival. Fresh from being well and truly put through the wringer by Darren Aronofsky in his masterpiece/flop (depending on whose side of the argument you stand) Mother!, Jennifer Lawrence is back in a brand new espionage action thriller which asks as much of its main protagonist as it does of its audience.
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