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The Rhythm Section

2020

Reed Morano

Blake Lively, Jude Law, Sterling K. Brown, Daniel Mays ...

4.6

1,342

Thriller. Mystery Patrick (Blake Lively) is on a path of self-destruction after the death of her family in an airplane crash, a flight that she was meant to be on. After discovering that the crash was not an accident, her anger awakens a new sense of purpose and she rises to uncover the truth by adopting the identity of an assassin to track down those responsible. The new, and lethal, Stephanie Patrick is on a mission to fill the void between what she knows and what she is told. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"Just when 'The Rhythm Section' has seemingly reached the limits of foolishness, a romance springs out of nowhere and makes NO sense — even within this story’s utterly senseless world."	NEG
United States	Jake Cole Slant	"The film’s occasional gestures toward pseudo-feminist empowerment only compound the hollowness of its protagonist (...) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It’s destined to be viewed on a million long-haul flights, but it works perfectly well as a thriller. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Ian Sandwell Digital Spy	"It's messy, but there's plenty of promise (...) It's thanks to Lively that Stephanie is a character you're firmly behind, despite the niggles with the script and pacing (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	James Dyer Empire	"Twenty years ago this would have passed as a decent potboiler; in 2020, though, it feels too simplistic, and it’s this lack of sophistication that ultimately makes The Rhythm Section lose its beat (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"A perplexing hybrid of 'Nikita' and 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' - if those kickass female assassins were infuriatingly inept and in constant need of being rescued by their male mentors"	NEG
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"The plot may be boilerplate in this female-driven revenge thriller, but Blake Lively sells it, playing an action hero who fights like a real person: badly."	NEU
United States	Reed Tucker New York Post	"The name’s Bond. Jane Bond (...) the results hit with all the potency of a shaken-not-stirred martini minus the alcohol (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	William Bibbiani The Wrap	"'The Rhythm Section' takes well-worn genre material and removes all the substance and ingenuity, leaving behind only an undeveloped plot, a blank main character, and a sense of gravitas that is entirely unearned."	NEG
United States	Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"Blake Lively (...) wears so many headpieces that the proceedings begin to resemble a Carol Burnett Show sketch. It's but one of the many unintentionally comic aspects of the film"	NEG

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