Red Sparrow is a movie I've been wanting to watch for a while. To me, it seemed like a movie I'd like. I heard from many that it is a "James Bond and Black Swan combined." And being a huge fan of both movies, I really wanted to watch it. I picked it up from the library, like I do with most movies I want to watch. The first like 10 minutes of the movie was what I expected, but then after, it turned into something I didn't expect. The first 10 minutes of the movie is essentially Jennifer Lawrence's character performing ballet in a recital while Joel Edgerton is doing some spy stuff and it is not explicitly said what he is doing until much later, and that is one of my biggest problems in this film. I really love it when Jennifer Lawrence is on screen and kicking butt, but Joel Edgerton's subplot is kind of boring, and I did not care about him at all. He's actually kind of a weak character to be honest. And what comes along with Joel Edgerton's subplot is boredom. The movie gets boring when we pay attention to Joel Edgerton because he isn't interesting, and Jennifer Lawrence's character is way more interesting. The performances are pretty good in this movie, especially from Jennifer Lawrence, and there are many thrilling sequences as well, especially at the beginning of the movie. The second act of the movie is kind of boring because Joel Edgerton's subplot kind of intertwines with Jennifer Lawrence's subplot, and it creates a bland part of the movie that really doesn't go anywhere because not much is happening. The twists in the movie really aren't shocking, in my opinion at least, because it does not really bring the story in another direction. When the twist happened, I was just like, "Okay, I guess that happened", and that's it. I feel like if you're a huge fan of spy movies, I think you'd like this one. 7/10