Reviewed by: Samantha Keogh
Review made possible by: Empire Entertainment
Prima ballerina Dominika Egorova faces a bleak and uncertain future after she suffers an injury that ends her career.
Finding that she and her infirm mother will soon lose their home and medical aid, Egorov must find another way to serve the Russian government to ensure her mother continues to receive the treatment she needs.
But not before she exacts revenge against the pair who ruined her ballet career.
Through the intervention of her uncle, who works for the government, she soon finds herself seducing an enemy of the state who is then murdered in front of her.
The knowledge of his death forces her to choose between a life of service to the state or death at the government’s hands.
Choosing the former she finds herself at Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains young people to use their minds and bodies as weapons.
While initially resisting what is essentially training to be a glorified whore, she emerges as the most dangerous Sparrow after embracing and completing the sadistic training process.
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As she comes to terms with her new abilities and the life her uncle has trapped her into, Egorov meets a CIA agent who tries to convince her that he is the only person she can trust.
He is, in fact, her mark and her assignment is to get him to trust her and give up the name of his informant within the Russian government.
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She soon gains his trust and demonstrates that the very thing which makes her so dangerous is that while she trusts no one, everyone trusts her.
This makes her a formidable enemy, an enemy no one realises they have made until it is too late.
No one is safe and crossing her only ensures you will pay.
Red Sparrow is an excellent movie which has a number of intricate plot turns you won’t see coming and is, in my opinion, one of the top thrillers currently on offer.
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