Been a spy in the world of movies about secret agents is not as glamorous as it should be. A new wave of highly trained people is aiming to wear James Bond or Jason Bourne shoes and show the audiences around the world that not only men can be tough and smart take over the secrets from governments around the world.

The first attempt was with actress Charlize Theron in Atomic Blond, now director Francis Lawrence brings Jennifer Lawrence in a new spy drama, Red Sparrow. Dominika Egorova (Lawrence) is a famous Russian ballerina who is supporting her ill mother. After an injury ending her career, Dominika is approached by her uncle Ivan (Mathias Schoenaerts) who works SVR (Foreign Russian Intelligence) offer her a deal, one mission in exchange for Ivan paying Dominika's mom medical expenses.

Dominika accepts the deal, she will have to meet Russian gangster Dimitry Ustinov who is really fond of her, during the times she was the prima ballerina. The mission goes wrong Ustinov rapes her and is killed by members of the SVR, this was just a set up to get rid of Dimitry Ustinov.

After the mission, Ivan offers Dominika to continue working for SVR or been executed since she was the only present during Dimitry's death.

From now on Dominika will be own by the government in a secret program call Red Sparrow, where people are trained to be assassins and use every tool to seduce their victims. Nate Nash ( Joel Edgerton) is a CIA operative in Moscow becomes Dominka's first assignment as a Sparrow.

Red Sparrow is another film helping to launch a new wave of spy thrillers, focusing mostly on women spies. The film is confusing, violent and highly sexualized, besides the use of great actors like Vanessa Redgrave and Jeremy Irons. Seen actors speaking English with a British accent or American actors pretending to speak Russian accent literally throw you off from the movie experience. Red Sparrow is just another spy drama, easy to forget.