‘Red Sparrow’ Trailer: Jennifer Lawrence Becomes a Weapon

By Max Covill

The Oscar winner plays a trained killer in this upcoming espionage thriller.

Despite drawing instant comparisons to Black Widow and last year’s Atomic Blonde, Red Sparrow is its own demon. Based on the novel by Jason Matthews, the movie stars Jennifer Lawrence and depicts the transformation of a Russian ballerina into a weapon highly trained in psychological manipulation. She is put into a no-win scenario where she must either accept training to become a Sparrow, or she will die.

Just because Red Sparrow follows the recent trend of female-led action movies, audiences are quick to compare them against each other — something that isn’t usually done for the millions of similar male action movies. This might also be the sort of thing that doesn’t get made once the sale of Fox to Disney is complete. It’s a violent, sexual spy thriller in the vein that the Mouse House hasn’t shown willingness to touch in recent years. Perhaps the only issue audiences will likely take with this movie is that a super capable woman gets turned because of the influence of a man.

The original trailer didn’t show much of the plot, but we get a much broader picture of the story with this new spot for Red Sparrow:

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