Being a divisive movie, Red Sparrow put me on the good side of the divisiveness. My respect for Jennifer Lawerence as an actress inclined after watching her perform and commit to this movie. She puts out a very convincing Russian accent, and is willing to go the extra mile in terms of nudity. She's able to bolden her character in a web of other well written characters played by other big stars, with the exception being her mother who I failed to empathize with. The movie shuffles through clever twists that engage you into the story, compelling you with anticipation as to which side Dominika will fall on. You're suspicions of her swing like a pendulum, being pushed by the cold violence that drops in every once and a while. Dominika and Nate are the spine relationship of the story, and while I bought into it, I didn't buy into how far their relationship went. It seemed to move ahead of itself. I expected the training Dominika was put through and her actual fighting skills to be more advanced as they implied. Her uncle tells her that the training would be hard, but all we see her and the trainees do is jog and learn the arts of sexual deception. The movie implies that Sparrows are very dangerous people physically as well as psychologically, but only psychologically seemed to be the case. Overall, I think that Red Sparrow is a well put together movie that switches and deceives your expectations constantly, but at times can feel slightly slow but yet a little rushed at the same time. So I give it a 7.9