Despite some graphic scenes which can be tough to watch, Francis Lawrence never takes it too far though. I have always been attracted to spy movies and I must say that this is one of the most well-executed ones I have seen in quite some time. Francis Lawrence certainly shot a film which is intense and also very interesting. Every individual who has been sent to this facility is to be turned into a tough, unscrupulous and cold spy. The scenes and some events depicted in this film are at times nothing for the squeamish. Therefore, her uncle sends her to a training facility where she is to be conditioned to become an operative (Sparrow) herself. In order to save her own life, she needs to proof that she is of value to the Russian Government. This is where the plot thickens – there are to be no witnesses of this incident. As part of her job, she is asked to seduce a Russian politician, who upon raping her, is being killed by a Russian operative. Her first assignment would go terribly wrong though. As a direct result, in order to be able to make money and to take care of her sick mother, she needs to find an alternative which is then suggested to her by her uncle Ivan who happens to work for the Russian intelligence. Jennifer Lawrence starrs as Dominika Egorova, a well-known Russian ballerina who, due to a terrible on stage accident, is unable to further pursue her dream. The story and setting of Red Sparrow is rather dismal and bleak. It came as no big surprise that, for his next big project, Francis Lawrence would once again leave nothing to chance music-wise and with James Newton Howard in charge certainly nothing should go wrong. Two years later, when Gary Ross would not return for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, director Lawrence once again hired James Newton Howard and together they successfully completed the Hunger Games franchise.
Thankfully, we at least got the score as James Newton Howard had originally written it on CD.įor Water for Elephants, James once more teamed up with the director and wrote a gorgeous score that worked brilliantly with the picture. However, when looking back, it might have been the right call to have very little music in this particular film. At that time, this decision seemed rather illogical to the fans of the composer and most likely to James himself. In 2007, James Newton Howard had scored I Am Legend starring Will Smith – a film in which most of the very good score written by Mr. Director Francis Lawrence and composer James Newton Howard have so far worked together on six movies.
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