Red Sparrow

Watch: Red Sparrow

2/15/20182h 20m

Premiere Release (US)

~ Seduce. Deceive. Repeat. ~

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

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$69,000,000.00

Revenue:

$151,572,634.00

Key words:

central intelligence agency (cia)
sexual abuse
budapest, hungary
based on novel or book
self sacrifice
spy
patriotism
seduction
training
double agent
chechnya
hospital
torture
mole
female spy
mortal danger
deceit
uncle niece relationship
american embassy
moscow, russia
russian spy
paranoid
grim
spy thriller
bolshoi ballet
ballet performance
secret code
prima ballerina
complex
mother daughter relationship
theatre
asset
home health aide
secret meeting
suspenseful
gorky park
intense
bitter
audacious

Cast

Jennifer Lawrence

~ as ~

Dominika Egorova

Joel Edgerton

~ as ~

Nathaniel "Natan" Nash

Matthias Schoenaerts

~ as ~

Vanya Egorov

Charlotte Rampling

~ as ~

Matron

Jeremy Irons

~ as ~

Vladimir Korchnoi

Ciarán Hinds

~ as ~

Alexei Zyuganov

Joely Richardson

~ as ~

Nina Egorova

Mary-Louise Parker

~ as ~

Stephanie Boucher

Bill Camp

~ as ~

Marty Gable

Douglas Hodge

~ as ~

Maxim Volontov

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Reviews (4)

RV
Ricardo Vargas
Written 7 year(s) ago
9
I love Jennifer Lawrence, she's just amazing. It's not her best apparition but she's the main character of the plot, so you can appreciate her like in no other of her movies.

Twisted and complex, the main plot is defined by itself during the development of the movie.

By synopsis, Dominika Egorova (Jennifer Lawrence) it's a professional ballet ballerina that tragically forced to change her career path by an "accident".

Moved by her family needs, she's accept some "business" propositions that subsequent convert her into an Sparrow, a secret government physiologic weapon of seduction.

By personal opinion you can feel this movie very slow because of the absent of a good sound work. The image of this movie was perfect for an excellent sound editing and mixing, so the absent of this take some points in the final score in public perception.
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cabji
Written 7 year(s) ago
7
It's one of those movies where you know what's going to happen in the end but you aren't sure how it's going to happen. Then at the end you know you have to watch it again so that you can understand how it happened.
Gimly
Written 6 year(s) ago
4
I thought I was going to get Black Widow only boring, but what I ended up getting was actually Atomic Blonde only boring.

Final rating:★★ - Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product.
CinemaSerf
Written 2 year(s) ago
5
Charlotte Rampling is rather menacingly calculating in this otherwise rather dreary espionage thriller. She is the matron of a school where acclaimed ballet dancer turned agent "Dominika" (Jennifer Lawrence) is being sent to learn how to use sex (and sexuality) as weapons of war. After a pretty squeamish (best not say sticky) start, she gets into her stride and is soon on the trail of her CIA target "Nash" (Joel Edgerton). Of course it isn't going to be straightforward as loyalties are tested, she hasn't really a clue whom she can trust and - yes, it does all sound a bit familiar doesn't it? I am afraid I just could not get "Hunger Games" out of my head for most of this and the starkness of the sexual brutality wore very thin very quickly - rendering the remainder of the film quite sterile and frankly, rather dull and repetitive as she proceeds to try to entrap her quarry and discover who his Soviet sources are. It is poorly paced, I felt, and at over 2¼ hours long it seemed to drag interminably once we, the audience, had sort of put two and two together. Edgerton is a competent actor, and the easy on the eye Matthias Schoenaerts adds a little complexity to the plot, but I am afraid, otherwise, this is a long and rather lacklustre outing for a star far from her best delivering a story that is most definitely not John le Carré.