they won’t ever let go I’ll find a way
welcome to mojo at the movies I’m Eric
and once again I am joined by Manny how
you doing I’m doing very good Eric so we
went to go see red Sparrow this is the
latest movie starring Jennifer Lawrence
directed by Francis Lawrence noir later
on the Hunger Games Movies I believe
yeah exactly but this is not a Hunger
Games movie this is a spy movie yes a
Russian spy movie in which she plays a
red sparrow a Russian spy she starts off
as a ballerina but quickly gets into the
spy game which we’ll get to because of a
weird series of circumstances that
happened at the beginning the move
slapping at the beginning the movie
excruciating we won’t talk about it
right that’s a bit the hashtag spoilers
but we’ll move on well power through she
becomes a spy so here are three reasons
we think you guys should see it many
let’s start with the first one for me
it’s that Jennifer Lawrence is a total
badass in this movie yeah she goes
through a good physical transformation
put on some some muscle on some muscle
tone especially from she learned to
dance ballet she learned how to do some
combat basically just what her body goes
through in this movie and it’s it’s her
it’s it’s really her like through a
bunch of physical scenes where you would
think they would use a double or
anything and it’s really her I mean it’s
well she’s great she trained with
what’s-his-name Kurt Froman who’s you
know a major player in the Hollywood
ballet scene this guy’s the biggest
player in it the biggest learn but she
so she trained for months and months on
end to learn ballet also you know to
learn to speak with a Russian accent and
I found her accent was you know I was
never put off by either her accent or or
her performance didn’t sound forced or
comedic and when she spoke in Russian
for me it sounded natural obviously I’m
not Russian so I wouldn’t know but it
sounded pretty good I heard some
reviewers talk about how it’s out a
little bit boris and natasha ich so you
know it could be ridiculed III didn’t
mind it harsh for me but
you find that she did a very good job at
it more believable than some bigger
actors trying to do accents and and you
know you mentioned her performance and
being a badass and her body I mean you
know we one thing that a lot of people
are talking about is the fact that she
does a nude scene it’s a full frontal
nude scene and what’s interesting is
that she’s now gone on record to say
that it was empowering for her because
because of what happened with the the
the photo hacks of a couple years ago
she felt that the power was taken away
from her and in this particular scene
she is in the driver’s seat she is not
only making the people in the scene
uncomfortable but without her power but
she you’re in the theater going you know
yeah you’re a little bit like in she’s
very intimidating very intimidating yeah
I think she has that intimidating
quadrille quality because of her
character and I think she just grasped
this character and it’s a very
believable performance when she emotes
in this movie you believe it there’s a
there’s a wild transformation from what
she is at the beginning of the movie
that’s almost kind of like a pushover
type of person that’s like told to do
stuff and she does it and towards the
end of the movie grabs a full control of
the entire situation which again leads
back to our first point that I think her
performance in this movie and Jennifer
Lawrence as an actress has become a
serious actress right exactly she chose
she made the decisions to to to assume
all these things in this movie yeah and
one thing is you know Francis Lawrence
you can tell she’s a bit of his muse you
know there’s a lot of close-ups on her
face it’s it’s they’re not huge facial
expressions but just these small things
in the glaze that knuckle a said glance
you know but but it just no she’s got it
and she was so in character that when
they were filming in Budapest apparently
she got into a fight it was pretty
hilarious as some guy wanted to take a
selfie and she was I guess she was just
feeling the role and she got into a bar
fight and then again we have Christian
Bale who you know obliterates a lighting
director on the set of Terminator so I
mean actors right that’s what they got
to do right exactly you know if they’re
hanging out with Kurt Froman okay so the
second point is it’s not just Jennifer
Lawrence it’s the rest of the supporting
cast yeah i solid supporting camp
you know within a couple of minutes of
the movie you’re like Oh Jeremy Irons
yeah but that’s also to my respect I
only saw one trailer and I also didn’t
read the poster so I think I was
watching it and like I turned over to
you in the theaters like oh my god
Jeremy joel edgerton is oh yeah who I
don’t always love but he does a pretty
good I mean he’s so the the American in
the Nashes ISM yeah Nate Nash most
American name ever and also he’s like
any movie comes about or they’re like
hey you know we need like a 40-something
guy who’s like in shape but not in shape
who is like all-around American and we
need him to give us a solid performance
it’s like let’s call up Joel Joel yeah
sure he’s free yeah he’s that he’ll do
it but overall his character arc too is
a bit from you it’s a bit wishy-washy
yeah but he does a good job at it I
think you know what’s really great at
Charlotte Rampling
she plays the the teacher at the school
at the sparrow school where we’re the
spies go to learn the art of seduction
or as or as I called them the super sexy
spies or as Jennifer Lawrence says I
would what you sent me to whore school
yeah it was pretty hardcore but and so
Charlotte Rampling as the as the teacher
there is she’s pretty badass – yeah way
she’s kind of has this power over the
class and over the whole students and
kind of pointing out these things and
aspects of people’s personality where
it’s like this is what you’d have to do
to exceed in this type of environment
and I was really happy to see her
because I loved shed a short run on
Dexter yep and I loved her on that she
played like a psychiatrist the kind of
understood Dexter’s character and like
opened up different feelings and
emotions and I find she took that that
character and amped it up in this movie
and I think she did a fantastic job and
also mary-louise Parker out of nowhere I
was expecting that even all the
characters are kind of of a certain ilk
and then all of a sudden she comes in
and she has this great it’s it’s like a
it’s a short scene but she still is a
short scene she’s like you said she
steals it
yeah but also it’s her character is is
such a funny wacky little character yeah
it’s kind of in a position of power and
she knows she’s in that position of
power and she’s kind of using that
against
everybody else that she’s trying to
manipulate it’s not really anything for
the story but I mean like her character
plays a key turning point in this story
and it was just fun to see her come out
and do that type of role and speaking of
turning points our third point you know
another reason to see this is that it
really hits all the right spy movie
beats yeah and how do we say this it
puts a twist on iMovie Tom the spy movie
twist right yeah it it really it goes
through like the common paces like the
common pace where oh I’m not really a
spy but then I’m really good at being a
spy and then it’s like oh here’s my
hidden agenda on why I’m doing this and
this is how I’m going to execute it and
know I learned everything so quickly it
goes through all those paces but it does
keep you on your toes it does there’s
some really intense fight scenes and
situation and that lot of hyper violence
yeah when the scene is violent it is
violent yeah and that was kind of like
and it kind of gives like a good shock
factor to every violent scene it but the
violence is not overdone to where it’s
Gore porn it’s more like this is how you
would have to go through this type of
situation you know I’ll say one thing
the movie is two and a half hours long
and so I found it too long I feels it
feels two-and-a-half hours long yeah I
think they could have you know they
would have benefited from shortening it
and throwing some things on the cutting
room floor and but essentially it does
feel like one of those spy movies where
you’re like you know you’re kind of
following the action and and and you
like the fact like we said there’s a
twist at the end it’s a twist on the
twist and and that really got me I mean
how memorable is this movie going to be
in the grand scope of things I think I
was telling our director Phoebe before
it’s the type of movie that I saw in
theater because we get all these cool
passes thank you very much Eric I don’t
know if it was a movie I would run out
to see I would see it and I don’t think
I would run out to watch it on digital
download or rent it on the PlayStation
Network I think it’s really like Oh red
Sparrow got added to Netflix let me
watch it again
movie okay it’s not a Netflix movie
mm-hmm I think you should see it yeah
you should see it if you like spy movies
okay that is my review now how
she compared to for example atomic
blonde I find Charlize Theron’s is like
next level actress for me I always have
like a bit of a soft spot for her but
two atomic blonde I think it’s not
really the same type of movie atomic
blonde is an action movie that’s kind of
being like hey remember the 80s wasn’t
it cool let’s do all this cool stuff
this was more of throwback to the 70s
this was more like a throwback to those
old-school spy movies where it’s story
and then whatever happened there was a
reason for it to happen it wasn’t just
an action set piece everything drove the
story forward or pushed the illusion
that Jennifer Lawrence’s character was
trying to build to go to that next step
to hit that next story be an atomic bomb
was more like here’s a fun story classic
classic type of action movie story and
here’s a great bunch of action set
pieces that are really fun to watch that
escalate throughout the movie goes well
I’d be curious to hear what you guys
think let us know in your comments
thanks Manny and we’ll see you guys next time