Red Sparrow Movie Review - A Reluctant Spy Story

March 14, 2018

Red Sparrow Movie Review - A Reluctant Spy Story

Red Sparrow is an ambitious spy thriller that aims to fly high with quite a number of famous casts. Unfortunately, it was brought down with its thin plot and characters development. The best element of Red Sparrow is its lead actress, Jennifer Lawrence. She has put on an outstanding performance for her given character, Dominika Egorova. You will be convinced that Jennifer Lawrence was indeed born Russian due to her masterful grasp on the Russian accent. Another standout cast is Jeremy Irons, although lack of screen time but he made full use of it.

Red Sparrow Official Movie Poster

Source: 20th Century Fox

Hot & Spicy !

(Don't mess with her!)

Source: Courtesy of 20th Century Fox

The movie is about 2 hours and 30 minutes long. With this amount of running time, one would expect characters to be deeply developed by the time the movie has ended. Instead, most of the time was used on trying to make things more complex than it already is. Less is more, sometimes too much of something might not turn out to be good. The exciting part is there is an unexpected cool twist in the plot.

Jennifer Lawrence as Dominika Egorova

& Sergei Polunin as Konstantin in Red Sparrow

Source: By Murray Close / Courtesy Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

J-Law standing next to three of the Red Sparrow co-stars and her director.

From L - R; Francis Lawrence, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Jeremy Irons

Source: glamour.com

However, the movie is especially good at portraying raw grit and gruesome action scenes. It is slowly paced and somewhat resemblance to old-school spy thrillers. It is definitely not for the faint of heart. One should watch Red Sparrow if you have the interest in realistic and gritty spy movies.