Red Sparrow

Do you get excited when you hear a movie is full of graphic and sadistic torture scenes?  Have you always wanted to see Jennifer Lawrence completely naked?  Do you look forward to  a movie with a terrible script?  If you answered ‘yes’ to each one of these questions, Red Sparrow is the movie for you.  Unfortunately, I answered ‘no’ and did not care for this movie.  The trailers make Red Sparrow sound like it will be an interesting, thoughtful movie.  If only the trailer writer could have written the script!  There are some very gruesome special effects to help explain why promising ballerina Dominika Egorova (Lawrence) is sent to Sparrow School, aka Whore University, by her sleazy uncle.  Sparrow school teaches you how to become detached from your emotions so that you can have sex as one of many methods of controlling or eliminating potential informants and enemies (the movie seems to focus mainly on the first method though).  The ultimate goal is  gain information for the Russian government.  It takes almost 2 1/2 hours to get to the minor plot twist pay-off.  This movie wastes some good actors, like Joel Edgerton, Jeremy Irons, Charlotte Rampling, Mary-Louis Parker and Ciaran Hinds.  With this talent, I expected more, but got so much less!