Without the hammer-and-sickle menace of the Soviet Union, we had to scramble to find new bogeymen.
As up-to-the-minute as the Mueller investigation,Red Sparrowcouldnt be more timely.
If only it were a better movie.
Credit: Murray Close/Twentieth Century Fox
Dominika is at a desperate crossroads.
The double crosses stack up like nesting dolls.
But its all fairly ludicrous.
And her chemistry with Edgerton never makes the leap from the page to the screen.
The less said about her moose-and-squirrel accent, the better.
Even the technology feels dated (floppy disks!).
Only a clever, sting-in-the-tail finale hints at the better movie this might have been.
