It must be noted, though, that in a climactic action scene, the filmmakers require Dominika to do something very stupid and very implausible - not fun, spy-action implausible, but the head-smacking, “come on!” variety - so that a bad guy will live long enough to start a three-person stiletto battle.
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The Lyft iPhone app is well over 100 megs presumably, America’s military satellite schematics are slightly more than that.)ĭominika and Nate enjoy something less than full success on this first assignment together, but in deference to the film’s producers (whose “please no spoilers” letter to critics suggests they think the film is more surprising than it is), let’s stop the synopsis here.
(For those who never had to use the things, those discs would all together hold under 9 megabytes of data. That’s right, kids: You can’t even get a MacBook with a DVD drive anymore, but the sexiest spies in the world are evidently toting physical-media hardware that was obsolete sometime in the last century. But what the hell is up with those secrets? For reasons that are never hinted at, the information she’s selling comes on a stack of six 3.5-inch floppy discs. Mary-Louise Parker, as the American traitor, brings a welcome (and intoxicated) screw-’em-all attitude to her short sequence. Dominika gets into some trouble with her Hungarian roommate and the leering bureaucrat assigned to monitor her work, then contrives a way to solve her problems: She’ll intercept the chief of staff of an American senator, who has been planning to sell state secrets to Russia for a quarter-million dollars. The cat’s out of the bag nearly from the start, but Dominika and Nate still have to do-si-do a bit before they can actually start working together against the Ruskies. Though she and Edgerton have adequate chemistry onscreen, the screenplay fumbles any heat it might have generated as the characters try to deceive and woo each other simultaneously. One is tempted to draw parallels between the character and Lawrence herself, who performs unimpeachably here but is better than the material.
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He’s in Budapest now, and Dominika is to go there, win his trust and learn the identity of his mole.ĭominika, who until this point has radiated the kind of better-than-this defiance one expects from a ballerina asked to screw gross guys for her country, now slides into survival mode - doing what is demanded of her, but clearly looking for the angles that might make her something like a free agent again. Nate Nash (Joel Edgerton) is a CIA man who had to flee Russia after he’s nearly caught meeting a high-level Russian intelligence officer feeding the Americans secrets.
Long story short, she thinks she’s agreeing to a one-night stand of seduce-and-betray action so that Vanya will support her sick mother when that night turns into an assassination, Vanya says she knows too much and will be killed if she doesn’t go full-time.Īfter her somewhat intriguing stint at school, where students are forced to become unsentimental about their bodies and do what they’re told with them (“Your body belongs to the state”), Dominika gets an assignment. What uncle would send his niece to such a camp? The question is asked several times here, but more puzzling is why Dominika would go.
Jennifer Lawrence’s Dominika Egorova, a star ballerina whose career is destroyed by a gruesome onstage accident, gets sent to Sparrow School by her uncle Vanya (Matthias Schoenaerts), a handsy sleaze who ranks high in the SVR.
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