RED SPARROW

RED SPARROW:  A thriller in every sense of the word, this Jennifer Lawrence starring film will keep you guessing. With a splendid supporting cast including Joel Edgerton, Jeremy Irons and Charlotte Rampling, the movie is a bit hard to follow at times but all is explained in the twist ending.
The plot involves a ballerina who is injured and must give up dancing, opting to enroll is "Sparrow School," a Russian intelligence service where she is taught to use her body as a weapon.   Her first assignment to bring down a C.I.A. officer ends up having repercussions that spreads to both countries.  The film is long and tedious at times with some gratuitous gore and nudity thrown in, but once the ball gets rolling, the last hour was edge of your seat stuff, with more twist and turns that a Coney Island Roller Coaster.   If this is your genre, you won't be disappointed.  And Lawrence pulls all the stops!