Movie Man Darian Watching All Night Long

Red Sparrow
This film was incredibly underwhelming! I have been staying away from trailers and promotional aspects of films now so I can be surprised walking into a film and I did so again with this film and was it worth it? No it wasn't because the film was not that great it had a incredibly interesting concept but the concept was more interesting then the plot for example the first half of the film was great I was very intrigued of what was going on but then the other half of the film I just was lost and didn't care for. The film is very much a mixed bag of a film that leaves you underwhelmed and just disappointed.

Before writing my review on this film I wanted to hear what other people thought of the film and most of their reactions to it I agree with. Their are moments in this film that are graphic sexually and violent wise and I think they aren't handled well in a respectful manner. What I mean is for example theirs a scene where a woman gets sexually assaulted and then the next scene it is never explored or mentioned again so then why have it in the film? Their was no purpose for it if they explored her mental state after ok I understand why you might of put it in but here they just put it in no intention whatsoever. So I can see people getting offended by the way woman are treated in the film it is very offensive and not handled at all respectfully.

Secondly the film's violence also was an issue for me because most of the film it's a talking heads film where very little action happens and it's more about the talking aspect which is fine the issue I have though is how the director Francis Lawrence chose to go all the way uncomfortably brutal in the sexual and violent scenes just for the wow factor which wasn't needed at all it the violence crossed the line and just was way to Brutal for me to stomach. So action wise a lot of the ways the depict that in the film was way to intense.

Then lastly the tone and style of the film, the film clocks in at 2h and 19m which is a long runtime and you really feel that runtime because the film is interesting for the first half but the second half you don't care for so your sitting watching and you just want this to be over but it keeps going so it just didn't know when to wrap up and end their were so many scenes they could of cut out but didn't. For example the more important dialogue driven scenes they overlook and cut short but the sexually violent and brutality of it they had no problem showing for three minutes or longer. As well style was way to similar to past films I know it's a spy film so we've seen it before but you can inject new things into the genre Casino Royale did that and so did KingsMen the secret service. But this film feels way to similar to last years Atomic Blonde just more boring and less exciting in every aspect. It didn't know what it wanted to be one moment it wanted to be slick and smooth like a Spy thriller other moments it wanted to be a intense brooding action film so it was just tonally all over the place.

The film results in a over long offensive film that dose not care about how it handles sexual assault or violence in the film and tries to be a slick spy film like the rest that just falls short and leaves you underwhelmed and just offended Red Sparrow is a spoon fed formula we've seen before that brings nothing new and just is bland boring and brutal.

Rated R : Graphic sexual Violence, graphic violence, language throughout

This film revolves around a woman who's a ballerina then when an incident occurs she turns to the life of becoming a Russian Spy and all the training and things that come with it.

Jennifer Lawrence : She's better in this then she was in Mother! I know I sound like I hate on her but I actually think she's a really great actress with great skill as she's shown in American Hustle and Silver Linings Playbook that's why I've been so hard on her because we've seen her do better and we know she can as she shows here she can be great when she wants to be. In the film she plays a ballerina that turns to the life of a Russian Spy. First off the accent Lawrence gives a good accent but at times it could feel a little much but for the most part she nailed it pretty hard on the head. For how she portrays this character onscreen she did a fantastic job. She really showed onscreen the weight on her shoulders and the intensity this character is thrown into and just how it leaves her rattled and you see that in her performance which is just great to watch she really is giving her absolute best and giving us the best with what she's been given. Her range emotionally onscreen was very interesting because she could go from slick and sly at times to just being totally broken and shattered emotionally and the way she was able to sway back and forth from that and really deliver an emotional punch like that was very effective and just worked. Sadly we don't see the mental state of her character fleshed out much or explored but Jennifer tires her hardest to get us to care for her and invest in her and I admire her for doing so because she's easily the best part of this film. She just really became this character and you really believed her she just soaked up every bit of this role knocking it out of the park. Overall Lawrence gives one of her best performances I've seen In a while.

Francis Lawrence : Lawrence offended me and disappointed me for the third time. I was stupid enough to to think he could do better then how he screwed up the last two hunger games films and actually give a good directed film wow was I wrong for that. He didn't even try to make this film at all in any sense of the word feel enjoyable. He was tone wise all over not knowing which to stick to and then when had talking heads throughout the whole film but then when it came it to sexual and violent scenes he went way over the line. He did everything wrong and it's kind of brilliant how a director can screw up so much. He couldn't deliver a solid base story it felt hollow and just uninteresting for the last hard the audience then not caring about anything onscreen. He tried to make it like a classic spy thriller mixed with brutality and it just didn't work and if they could of got another director to helm this film maybe it would of been better then this crap of a mess we were given by Lawrence here what terrible direction here.