Prima ballerina Dominika Egorova turns dangerous Sparrow.Prima ballerina Dominika Egorova turns dangerous Sparrow.Prima ballerina Dominika Egorova turns dangerous Sparrow.
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- TriviaSource novelist Jason Matthews may not have encountered a real-life Dominika in his work with the CIA, but "honeypot" school was indeed part of Soviet intelligence training. "In the Soviet Union, they had a school that taught young women the art of entrapment, the art of seduction, for blackmailing intelligence targets," Matthews explained. "They had a Sparrow School in the city of Kazan, on the banks of the Volga River, where young women were taught how to be courtesans. They were called 'Sparrows'."
- GoofsGeneral Korlinoi's medals are US Army medals. They include the Silver Star, the Purple Heart and the Army Good Conduct Medal.
- Crazy creditsThe title doesn't appear until the 10-minute mark.
- Alternate versionsThe UK version is cut for "strong sadistic violence" to earn a 15 certificate instead of an 18, which was done based on BBFC advice. As both countries make up the same distribution region, Ireland also received the same cut version (rated 16 for cinema and 18 on video). The contentious scene shows Ustinov being strangled:
- In the UK version, we only see a brief establishing shot where his hands are covering his throat, cutting right to a close-up of Dominika struggling but completely clean. The censored footage shows the wire cutting into Ustinov's throat for much longer, in more graphic detail after his arms hang loose, and him bleeding on Dominika's chest.
- Ustinov collapsing uses an alternate shot in the UK version, and the second close-up of Dominika is digitally bloodless as with the first, but there's still blood on her chest when putting on her clothes as per the uncut version (a continuity error).
- ConnectionsFeatured in Chris Stuckmann Movie Reviews: Red Sparrow (2018)
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Written by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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Watching this film adapted from the novel felt like deja vu of some good novels adapted into TV series or movies, either the scripts were not good enough to match up the original novels, or the leading key characters turned out terrible miscast. Michael Connelly's "Harry Bosch" series was totally ruined by the wrong cast of the guy who played Bosch in a lousy TV series, all the supporting actors, especially the female ones were even worse, female detectives or female city employees all looked in a fashion show, with perfect hairstyles, over the top make-up, tailored costumes...But worst of all, is the miscast of Harry Bosch, completely ruined the personification of the large-than-life Harry Bosch in the novels. The other worst nightmarish miscast was Tom Cruise played Jack Reacher of Lee Child's Jack Reacher series. Tom Cruise completely ruin the image of Jack Reacher in the novels.
Here, in "Red Sparrow", we got the same situation again. Either Jennifer Lawrence looked too old or the actress who played her mother looked too young. If you have read the two original novels, "Red Sparrow" and "Palace of Treason", Jennifer Lawrence didn't look or feel like what the leading character in the novels, far from it. Then Joel Edgerton especially, a wrong cast. Not only he didn't make me feel like the leading male character in the novel, he didn't have any believable chemistry with Jennifer Lawrence. The roles they played in this movie didn't click or sparkle to become lovers. The man Joel Edgerton played should be more attractive or handsome, a guy so smart and so aggressively headstrong ambitious, sometimes even careless but with toughness and guts. The novels showed it, but Edgerton didn't even come close. Furthermore, all the supporting actors didn't even have the chance to show us they are A-list actors, because the screenplay was not good at all.
I've found myself very impatient to sit tight to watch along. I even constantly lost interest to focus on the screen, distracted a lot. I totally agree with the low ratings and all those negative movie critics given so far to this movie. I had the same experience when I watched "Atomic Blonde".
Rent it when DVD comes out, not worth paying mucho dineros for cinema seats.
Here, in "Red Sparrow", we got the same situation again. Either Jennifer Lawrence looked too old or the actress who played her mother looked too young. If you have read the two original novels, "Red Sparrow" and "Palace of Treason", Jennifer Lawrence didn't look or feel like what the leading character in the novels, far from it. Then Joel Edgerton especially, a wrong cast. Not only he didn't make me feel like the leading male character in the novel, he didn't have any believable chemistry with Jennifer Lawrence. The roles they played in this movie didn't click or sparkle to become lovers. The man Joel Edgerton played should be more attractive or handsome, a guy so smart and so aggressively headstrong ambitious, sometimes even careless but with toughness and guts. The novels showed it, but Edgerton didn't even come close. Furthermore, all the supporting actors didn't even have the chance to show us they are A-list actors, because the screenplay was not good at all.
I've found myself very impatient to sit tight to watch along. I even constantly lost interest to focus on the screen, distracted a lot. I totally agree with the low ratings and all those negative movie critics given so far to this movie. I had the same experience when I watched "Atomic Blonde".
Rent it when DVD comes out, not worth paying mucho dineros for cinema seats.
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- Operación Red Sparrow
- Filming locations
- Slovenský Rozhlas - Mýtna 2826, Bratislava, Slovakia(Russian agency in Budapest)
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- Budget
- $69,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $46,874,505
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $16,853,422
- Mar 4, 2018
- Gross worldwide
- $151,572,634
- Runtime2 hours 20 minutes
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- 2.39 : 1
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