Its nothing we haven't seen before, in fact we get those films about female super agents now basically annually. Last year Charlize Theron gave us the "Atomic Blonde" and while that was pretty original in its execution, "Red Sparrow" is rather classical story telling. Its not a bad film at all, in fact it had many fine aspects and nice tension but it was also flawed. A bunch of british or american actors acting with russian accents - yeah it was irritating. Jennifer Lawrence still gave a pretty decent performance, at least most of the time. She had some nice scenes to showcase her talent. I also liked Joel Edgerton who was not as colorless as I expected. Because usually the male lead in those films is colorless. Charlotte Rampling was terribly wasted and underused. Its the kind of roles he used to play before her Oscar nomination and now she continues with it. Matthias Schoenearts was doing his very best to give his one dimensional role some life. Jeremy Irons was fine, especially towards the ending. Mary-Louise Parker was terrible. The film had some continuity issues for which I mostly blame director Francis Lawrence. I did not feel that this was the right project for him. Also I did not see the reason for it being so overlong. You could have easily cut it to a 2 hours running time. Also the screenplay was often not too believable. Or the mix of the rather weakish direction made it not always believable. What I liked were the twists and some smart turns. Lawrence also makes the film interesting as it was a brave turn for her. Nothing new but besides the running time quite enjoyable.