darkcurry
Well-Known Member
Seen The Rhythm Section earlier and here is my short review of it:
I thought it was a pretty decent thriller with a unique and more realistic take on a revenge movie. It had some Alias feel to it with her changing of identities. I was surprised to learn that Stephanie(Blake Lively)
She turned of course as we seen in the trailers into a female hellbent on revenge after her family was killed.
When she contacted B(Jude Law) for training so that she can go on her revenge tour he put her through the ringer in some very tough training exercises that left her at times wanting to give up.
I like how everything played out with this because it doesn't make her out to be some super badass right away. She fumbles and appears nervous throughout her revenge tour and it really gave the feel of a newbie to this new lifestyle.
As far as her relationship with Marc Serra(Sterling K Brown) goes
I thought it was a pretty decent thriller with a unique and more realistic take on a revenge movie. It had some Alias feel to it with her changing of identities. I was surprised to learn that Stephanie(Blake Lively)
was a drug addicted sex worker in the film. Although they never really showed her doing any of it.
They had parished in a plane bombing by some terrorist who had a specific target on the plane so unfortunately they were collateral.
I like how everything played out with this because it doesn't make her out to be some super badass right away. She fumbles and appears nervous throughout her revenge tour and it really gave the feel of a newbie to this new lifestyle.
As far as her relationship with Marc Serra(Sterling K Brown) goes
they meet while she was looking for specific knowledge on U-17 aka Reza who's supposed to be the mastermind behind the plane crash. He plays an ex-CIA agent that is able to help her in finding intel on U-17. She met him under another identity named Petra. Their relationship was tease heavy from the start with them both being attracted to each other. The ''sex'' scene between them was not what it seem. So I don't know WHAT the rating for "sexual content" was about. She took her shirt off they were hot and heavy for a minute before being interrupted by a phone call by B.
Marc winds up being the main bad guy in the end who when she finds out she eventually kills... or did she? lol. Some here might not like that part. But if you were looking for some ride off into the sunset, falling in love type ending it is not here. Although me and my girl was disappointed with that reveal I think the film overall was pretty decent. Blake and Sterling gave great chemistry before that and could've made for a MUCH better sex scene. Maybe when it comes out on blu-ray, DVD or online there was actually more to that. Wish there would've been more, but I hope to see these two in future films.
Marc winds up being the main bad guy in the end who when she finds out she eventually kills... or did she? lol. Some here might not like that part. But if you were looking for some ride off into the sunset, falling in love type ending it is not here. Although me and my girl was disappointed with that reveal I think the film overall was pretty decent. Blake and Sterling gave great chemistry before that and could've made for a MUCH better sex scene. Maybe when it comes out on blu-ray, DVD or online there was actually more to that. Wish there would've been more, but I hope to see these two in future films.
