“私は、国家の美しい武器。”
元バレエダンサーのドミニカはそのキャリアを終わらせるような怪我を負い、彼女の将来は一気に闇へと落とされる。そして、ある時ドミニカは秘密組織が運営する学校スパロウ・スクールから入学のオファーを受ける。その学校は、ドミニカのように突出した才能を秘めた若者を入学させ、心身とも武器として使えるように養成することを目的として設立されたものだった。厳しいトレーニングを終えたドミニカは、やがてスパロウ・スクール出身最強のスパイとなり、ロシアの機密事項を調査するCIA捜査官ナサニエル・ナッシュを誘惑して貶めようとするがドミニカとナサニエルは恋に落ちる。
製作費: $69,000,000 (104億円)
興行収入: $151,572,634 (227億円)
推定収支: $82,572,634 (124億円)
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監督: フランシス・ローレンス
脚本: Jason Matthews / ジャスティン・ヘイス
制作: David Ready / スティーヴン・ザイリアン / ピーター・チャーニン
撮影監督: Jo Willems
制作会社: Chernin Entertainment / 20th Century Fox / TSG Entertainment
I love Jennifer Lawrence, she's just amazing. It's not her best apparition but she's the main character of the plot, so you can appreciate her like in no other of her movies. Twisted and complex, the main plot is defined by itself during the development of the movie. By synopsis, Dominika Egorova (Jennifer Lawrence) it's a professional ballet ballerina that tragically forced to change her career path by an "accident". Moved by her family needs, she's accept some "business" propositions that subsequent convert her into an Sparrow, a secret government physiologic weapon of seduction. By personal opinion you can feel this movie very slow because of the absent of a good sound work. The image of this movie was perfect for an excellent sound editing and mixing, so the absent of this take some points in the final score in public perception.
It's one of those movies where you know what's going to happen in the end but you aren't sure how it's going to happen. Then at the end you know you have to watch it again so that you can understand how it happened.
I thought I was going to get _Black Widow_ only boring, but what I ended up getting was actually _Atomic Blonde_ only boring. _Final rating:★★ - Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product._
Charlotte Rampling is rather menacingly calculating in this otherwise rather dreary espionage thriller. She is the matron of a school where acclaimed ballet dancer turned agent "Dominika" (Jennifer Lawrence) is being sent to learn how to use sex (and sexuality) as weapons of war. After a pretty squeamish (best not say sticky) start, she gets into her stride and is soon on the trail of her CIA target "Nash" (Joel Edgerton). Of course it isn't going to be straightforward as loyalties are tested, she hasn't really a clue whom she can trust and - yes, it does all sound a bit familiar doesn't it? I am afraid I just could not get "Hunger Games" out of my head for most of this and the starkness of the sexual brutality wore very thin very quickly - rendering the remainder of the film quite sterile and frankly, rather dull and repetitive as she proceeds to try to entrap her quarry and discover who his Soviet sources are. It is poorly paced, I felt, and at over 2¼ hours long it seemed to drag interminably once we, the audience, had sort of put two and two together. Edgerton is a competent actor, and the easy on the eye Matthias Schoenaerts adds a little complexity to the plot, but I am afraid, otherwise, this is a long and rather lacklustre outing for a star far from her best delivering a story that is most definitely not John le Carré.
