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05-24-2018, 10:06 AM
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A bunch of really good actors doing crappy Russian accents. Russian hottie spy academy, but we all know now that real Russian spies are obese drunkards and skinny nerds trolling us on facebook. Red Sparrow is kinda brutal in a cold frozen way. Would you enjoy Charlotte Rampling ordering J-Law to give another student a blow job in front of the class? Lots of nude J-Law but in a degrading scenes - watch her get raped, watch her get tortured, watch her get humiliated. She does deliver a decent performance while the rest of the stellar cast act all cold Rusky stoic. Some really sadistic stuff in here and a few gritty fights, including a decent sanguinous knife fight towards the end. But long and drawn out, and kind of dumb. I say 'nay'. So disappointing.
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It was based on a crappy book so I had no hope for this.
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I decided to give this a gander despite DM's wave-off. Should have listened to DM.
I really couldn't grok or identify with any of the characters, or when I did think I was understanding, they'd do something wildly out of character, or some incident or action would occur that I found totally implausible. Dwindling credibility from the very first scene (J-Law as a Russian prima ballerina who suffers a compound fracture of the leg on stage [doing virtually nothing] that ends her career?!!!), and yes, too many degrading and nude scenes without any justifiable basis.
Based on the book of the same name by Jason Matthews, who, a former member of the CIA, advised the production on the depiction of spying. You'd think that would give the movie's shenanigans some clout. But I'm calling bullshit on him. He doesn't know anything about human nature or how the Russians would train its sparrows, or how to motivate anyone to do anything. Very amateurish effort, to my mind. I'm sorry to see J-Law and Charlotte Rampling lured into this one. And no, I'm not going to read the book to ascertain that Greg is right that it's crap. I'll trust him on that.
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Good call.
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(05-24-2018, 10:06 AM)Drunk Monk Wrote: Russian hottie spy academy, but we all know now that real Russian spies are obese drunkards and skinny nerds trolling us on facebook.
Crap. Called that wrong. Maria Butina = red sparrow. I don't even know what's real anymore.
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Nothing. The answer you are looking for is nothing.
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Maria Katasonova. Another sparrow. For realz. WTH?
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