Spy drama is uneven, relying heavily on cliches
“The Rhythm Section” is a thriller involving terrorism, revenge, and shady characters. Patterned on the James Bond and Jason Bourne spy flicks, with strong influences from “Red Sparrow” and “La Femme Nikita,” the film is the globe-trotting quest of a broken individual to find and exact the ultimate vengeance.<br /><br />Stephanie Patrick (Blake Lively), a young British woman, has fallen into a life of drugs and prostitution after losing her entire family in a plane crash. Still haunted by memories of her family, she sees periodic flashbacks of them all together in happier times. Two years after the crash, a journalist approaches her with evidence that it was the result of terrorism.<br /><br />The journalist has information that an engineering student in London named Reza (Tawfeek Barhom) is the mastermind behind the bomb that killed her family. She also learns that a spy, Boyd (Jude Law), is involved in the case, and tracks him down at his cottage in the Scottish countryside. He fills her in on the details of the attack.<br /><br />Determined to avenge the deaths of her family, Stephanie is obsessed with killing those responsible. Boyd trains her in brutal hand-to-hand combat, sharpens her marksmanship, forces her to swim across a lake in freezing weather, and focuses her on the dangers ahead.<br /><br />Stephanie’s training, which makes up a good portion of the film, is rough. Boyd pummels her in simulated life-or-death situations that look very real. He hardens her physically and emotionally before sending her out into the field, which includes Madrid, New York, Tangier, and Marseilles. The teacher/student role is played for awkward laughs from time to time, throwing off the serious tone of the rest of the film, as Stephanie becomes more confident and pushes back against Boyd’s training abuse.<br /><br />Though the film could have been an exciting spy thriller, it comes off as rather insipid. Lively’s performance is flat. The actress never immerses herself fully in the role and goes through the entire film with a single expression of “don’t mess with me” iciness. Even though to get close to her victims Stephanie wears a few disguises and adopts different personas, they never look sufficiently convincing. Lively lacks self-assurance and fails to engage the viewer enough to really care.<br /><br />The script doesn’t help. It coasts on cliches and never musters enough originality to raise the movie above other spy sagas. Director Reed Moreno has incorporated some good action sequences but there are too few of them. Rather than maintaining a brisk pace, the film bogs down in places and becomes overly talky. It loses steam when Stephanie enters into a romance with a contact (Sterling K. Brown) who may have important information. This relationship seems entirely wrong and is poorly developed.<br /><br />Audiences like a good villain, but “The Rhythm Section” spends little screen time on Reza. When the film should slow down a bit so we can understand his motivations and backstory, Reza is treated rather like a prop, with little character embellishment.<br /><br />On the plus side, the cinematography by Sean Bobbitt is excellent, with a sepia-like filter applied to the flashback sequences to give them a kind of glow, reflecting Stephanie’s constant, longing memories of her lost family. Bobbitt’s multi-angled filming of a car chase with exciting tracking shots is a highlight of the film.<br /><br />Bonus material on the 2-disc R-rated Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack include deleted and extended scenes and 5 behind-the-scenes featurettes. A Digital code on a paper insert is included in the packaging.
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Here is a brief synopsis of the title : Blake Lively stars as Stephanie Patrick, a woman on a path of self-destruction after her family is tragically killed in a plane crash. When Stephanie discovers that the crash was not an accident, she enters a dark, complex world to seek revenge on those responsible and find her own redemption. Based on the novel by Mark Burnell, from director Reed Morano (“The Handmaid’s Tale”) and the producers of the James Bond film series, The Rhythm Section also stars Jude Law and Sterling K. Brown..