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Red Sparrow Movie Review

admin — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 16:44:51 +0000

Who says ‘They don’t make them like that anymore?’ Red Sparrow is a classic spy yarn that challenges the audience as much as the actors on screen. There are rich rewards for both.

Jennifer Lawrence delivers her bravest performance yet and adds another outstanding job to her ever expanding resume of excellence. As an actor, she endures almost as much pain and shows as much commitment as her character does on screen.

The film slowly builds and builds, so viewers looking for that quick visceral thrill might have to look elsewhere but for those that revel in playing arm chair detective themselves, will find much to love as the clues unfold. When the final reveal comes it makes you reassess all that has come before.

Red Sparrow harkens back to a time when you could challenge an audience’s intelligence and detective skills before attention spans recessed and action became the dominant form for spy movies. All this psychological action and not a martini, shaken or stirred in sight.

Rob Hudson
www.facebook.com/RedSparrowMovie

Watch the New Trailer for Red Sparrow starring Jennifer Lawrence & Joel Edgerton!

admin — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 16:09:36 +0000

Dominika Egorova is many things.

A devoted daughter determined to protect her mother at all costs. A prima ballerina whose ferocity has pushed her body and mind to the absolute limit. A master of seductive and manipulative combat.

When she suffers a career-ending injury, Dominika and her mother are facing a bleak and uncertain future. That is why she finds herself manipulated into becoming the newest recruit for Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people like her to use their bodies and minds as weapons.

After enduring the perverse and sadistic training process, she emerges as the most dangerous Sparrow the program has ever produced. Dominika must now reconcile the person she was with the power she now commands, with her own life and everyone she cares about at risk, including an American CIA agent who tries to convince her he is the only person she can trust.

Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeremy Irons, Mary- Louise Parker and Charlotte Rampling, Red Sparrow is in Cinemas March 1, 2018

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RED 2 Movie Review

admin — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 18:42:11 +0000

Look out, the wrinkly killers are back and they’re taking no prisoners! This, the second outing for these ‘retired and extremely dangerous government operatives, continues the sense of fun of its predecessor in what amounts to The Expendables for grown-ups (only this time you can actually understand the dialogue). It has less blood ‘n’ guts than before but it’s still over the top in a more ‘British’ kind of way.

Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, Brian Cox, Mary-Louise Parker and Bruce Willis reprise their roles from the previous film and this time they’re joined by Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Asian action star, Byung-hun Lee. As the central and most-grounded character, Willis is almost boring; instead the flash and colour is supplied by the peripheral characters and, as before, Mary-Louise Parker remains the heart and soul of the film

The plot? It has something to do with a weapon of mass destruction but really who cares about the plot! We just want to see Ms Mirren with a sniper rifle and a sly smile, a crazy-eyed Malkovich wielding explosives and unique hats and Parker’s crooked smile. On this score, Galaxy Quest director, Dean Parisot, delivers just about what is expected.

If you’ve seen and enjoyed the original Red then strap in as you’ll have fun with this one as well. It does follow the same tried and true formula as before and while there’s few surprises, it is still is a big bag of rollicking fun.

Stuart Jamieson
www.hopscotchfilms.com.au