Red Sparrow (Blu-ray 2018)

by Francis Lawrence (Director)

Other authorsMary-Louise Parker (Actor), Charlotte Rampling (Actor), Jennifer Lawrence (Actor), Matthias Schoenaerts (Actor), Joel Edgerton (Actor)

Blu-ray, 2018

Status

Available

Call number

791.43

Collection

Outreach Library Services - Hekkla Rosseau Muskoka

Publication

20th Century Fox (2018), Edition: O-ring

Description

Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to Sparrow School, a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. Her first mission, targeting a C.I.A. agent, threatens to unravel the security of both nations.

User reviews

LibraryThing member wyvernfriend

Interesting twists and turns in this story of a ballerina, Dominika, who breaks her leg badly enough to be unable to continue as a ballerina who then is offered a job by her uncle, a job that will force her to work as basically a honey trap spy. The skills she has gained have made her a lethal

weapon but it's not a life she really wants.

It's an interesting watch, there are times it felt a bit stretched out and there were some scenes in the deleted scenes extras that would have made the story make more sense to me.

Sometimes it was a bit tough to watch.

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LibraryThing member ponsonby

This was better than I had expected from reading critics' reviews – but that doesn't mean that it's a very good film. In many ways it's a routine spy tale of who is double crossing whom, with views of a few European cities thrown in. The back story of the lead character's career as a ballerina

cut short, and her ill mother, is really just padding and not interesting except insofar as the family background motivates her later actions in a particular way. The audience is also misled about her throughout the film. Various big name actors eg Jeremy Irons, do what are essentially cameos with accents. The grizzled American CIA man is a rather feeble character, making only a feeble show of suspicion before falling for his beautiful counterpart. Jennifer Lawrence naturally looks good at all times even after being savagely beaten etc etc, but physically is an unlikely ballerina. She certainly looks Slavic, and has the required hauteur for the role.

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