Operation Red Sparrow : top reviews, reviews and ratings
Jennifer Lawrence's seductive and violent spy thriller has not satisfied everyone, although it is an effective work in terms of acting and direction, it remains a slight exercise in genre
In her goal of avoiding typecasting, Jennifer Lawrence has experimented with a wide range of characters that have allowed her to display all of her histrionic records. From indie movies to blockbusters and back to authorship movies, the actress appears determined to push her boundaries and after Passengers-30%, her latest big-budget movie, she turned to Darren Aronofsky in Mother! ! - 69%, where she submitted one of her most demanding works to date and, now, the cinematographic year has begun for the Oscar winner with the premiere of Operation Red Sparrow - 58%, a studio film with clear intentions to build a her own speech and perfecting the stamp of its director, Francis Lawrence, while it has served the actress as a means to explore her darkest and most intriguing dimensions in this espionage thriller that has divided specialized critics since it received its first reactions .
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Francis Lawrence and Jennifer Lawrence's fourth film after The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - 89%, The Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 1 - 65% and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 - 70%, is a feast of violence and sensuality; a nailing of part of the dumbbell in espionage cinema, although light and without many twists of the screw if one wants to compare it with other great genre titles, however, what he has not spared is in graphic violence and in the generous nudes, mainly that of the actress from The Games Of Destiny - 92%, a fundamental clause of the contract to give life to Dominika Egorova, a former Balette Bolshoi dancer who has come to Sparrow, that is, a Russian intelligence spy who uses his body as a lethal weapon of seduction to fulfill his objectives; although this transformation occurs against her will.
Adapting the novel of the same name written by former CIA agent Jason Matthews, Operation Red Sparrow - 58% takes us into Dominka's journey since she is captured by the Sparrow School, the institute where she will be trained to become an officer elite, until the moment in which he is entrusted with his first mission, however, his greatest test will occur when the intelligence service orders him to liquidate Nate Nash (Joel Edgerton), an American official of the CIA. However, both fall into networks of lies and their actions will have serious consequences for their countries and for themselves as they will begin to feel attracted to each other.
Promoted as the Atomic - 76% this year and even cited as the Black Widow movie that fans haven't gotten, Operation Red Sparrow is neither one nor the other, comparisons with the former are nothing short of spot on and the only thing What could unite them is his intention to continue the tradition of films about psychologically tormented female spies, but, in short, there are more differences since in this film the aspect on which the whole plot is built is perversion. What it has against it Operation Red Sparrow, as numerous reviews have pointed out, is an excessive duration that glories in showing Dominika's training, said deficiency is compensated by the powerful and enigmatic performances of Jennifer, Joel Edgerton and Matthias Schoenaerts , as well as the wise appearance of the legends of the cinema: Charlotte Rampling and Jeremy Irons; on the other hand, the elegant visual treatment and the exuberant production design are the most effective contributions of this thriller. Below we share some of the comments made by specialized critics in relation to Operation Red Sparrow - 58%.
