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Red Sparrow (2018) This movie comes with a very impressive cast: Jennifer Lawrence in the lead role of a Russian Ballerina who got to be manipulated by her uncle to join the sparrow brigade to work for Russian espionage. They're basically trained to woe intelligence officers and people with sensitive information in the West and then blackmail them. Joel Edgerton is playing the intelligence officer from the US that she tries to woe, however he wises up and it becomes a cat and mouse game. I'm not one for very explicit violence and there was plenty of this in the movie during torture scenes. I've never really watched Jennifer Lawrence in movies before and unfortunately she didn't impress me in the role - she doesn't look like a ballerina, doesn't move like one so that for me fell flat on its face. Her acting in the role wasn't convincing to me either, just didn't feel real and her Russian accent sounded phony. I was impressed with the acting of her opposite in the role Joel Edgerton. He looked real in the role. Also surprise guest appearances by Charlotte Rampling and Jeremy Irons. Except like Jennifer Lawrence their Russian accents sounded phony - Charlotte Rampling acting worked for acting a Russian, but not so Jeremy Irons. Nice to hear his voice though.