This is an engaging, gritty spy thriller.

Jennifer Lawrence is excellent as a young woman lured into the world of international espionage. The film depicts the Secret Service of the Russian Federation much more brutally than the K.G.B ever was. I feel this would have sat more comfortably set in the sixties - I mean who cares if the Russian Federation gets NATO secrets? They aren't going to invade any time soon and any crucial tactical info would be out of date in a matter of weeks.

This film is long but pact full of tension.

Perhaps it is my advancing years or just the way I was raised, but I cannot get excited about watching a pretty young woman being extensively tortured, humiliated and brutalized: It is simply not the way I want to spend my Friday night.

Great production and story. Jennifer Lawrence is amazing and shows she is capable of a lot more than shooting down spaceships with bow and arrow.