Jennifer Lawrence has proven herself to be not only a very talented actress but also a very fearless one. This film and last year's Mother! have proven this best. In Red Sparrow she plays a Russian Ballerina recruited to a 'sparrow' program by her uncle that teaches her to use her body as a weapon. When she finishes this school, she is dispatched by the Russian government to spy on a CIA agent (Joel Edgerton). I will say no more about this movie as more details could spoil important plot points. There are aspects of this film that I admired. First of all I didn't expect that the film would be as graphic and violent as it is. There are many awkward scenes that demand a lot from Jennifer Lawrence and she remains realistic and compelling. These scenes make the film more cringe inducing and realisitic. The audience is thrown into a real and authentic world. Authenticity is another aspect I enjoyed about this film. The world feels real and lived in with gritty and detailed set designs. No one seems safe in this society of espionage. The costumes give across this old fashioned but also majestic sense of a Russian culture, almost reminicent of USSR times. These style choices however contradict with the unfortunate choice of fake Russian accents. The idea of accents is very difficult, especially with a movie like this. We have huge movie stars like Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton and Jeremy Irons, all actors who aren't of Russian descent. They are forced to stick with Russian accents. This idea is very thin ice, it only worked limited times. One example that comes to my mind in this case is Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List. The reason why that worked is because the accents were there but didn't stand out. In this case with Red Sparrow, I immediately heard that Lawrence used an accent. This contradicted with the realistic and in depth world development we received otherwise. However the most glaring flaw with Red Sparrow lies within the story. It is simply too thin and uninteresting for a film like this. When Lawrence's character was training to become a sparrow, I was enthralled, the psychological aspects really intrigued me. When I saw the first 30 minutes of this film I was hoping to see one the best films of the year, it really did start strong but it then ditches the uncomfortable and disturbing story of basically creating a prostitute and turns into some normal spy caper. Don't get me wrong, the film doesn't turn into some action blockbuster, the slow burning tone remains. I enjoyed this initially when the story told the aforementioned tale of a woman becoming a tool for the government. Overall Red Sparrow did disappoint me, Lawrence continues to impress me with her selflessness in choosing these roles but this story simply justify many of the dark and brutal moments. So at the end we have a generic spy movie that is a little more sexually violent than others. With very little originality and flare.