Red Sparrow (2018)
7/10
Escort-Spy and Politics Gone Wrong
17 March 2018
Red Sparrow the story of a Russian woman played by Jennifer Lawrence who, after an incident can't poursue her dancing career. Then after helping her uncle on a task where she finds herself in need to seduce a man to get informantion from him, she noticed a crime and because of that ,got sent away to become a sparrow, basically an escort-spy! So from that moment until the end we get lots of conflics between the Americans and the Russians, where our heroine finds herself in the middle of the conflict.

The movie itslef is weird but good, yet I have a some major issues with the movie. First it's pretty racist. The way they show how the russians are savage and how the americans are sweethearts, was messing with me a little bit, since they spiced it up to a next level. Besides the fact that the movie was kind of racist, it was pretty intense, the movie was nothing like the trailers, it was way more dark and intense. Some scenes were really disturbing, such as some super dark erotic scenes, and some really really discusting scenes that pretty much make us think we are watching a *Saw* movie. The last thing that was a bit messy is, the accents, and the cast. The cast had a major issue such as there was no real russian in the movie, the whole cast are Americans and British people no Russians which is an annoying film, since the main subject is about the Russians. The Russians accent too were pretty much never really used or when they were used, well they were pretty terrible. Plus we did not get the chance to hear only one sentence in Russian.

Enough with the bad let's talk about what was good in the movie. First of all Jennifer Lawrence besides her bad russian accent, delivered a pretty good performance, she was intense and she gave everything she could give. Joel Edgerton and Matthias Schoenaerts both deliver great performances. The story itself is really good too, it's a mix of everything and goes really deep, and it's not the regular Spy movie we usually see. The visuals were really good and some scenes were brillant and stunning.

It's a great spy movie, it's original and intense.
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