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Aug 20, 2021 · Sweet Girl, starring Aquaman's Jason Momoa, is now out on Netflix, but is the new thriller worth a watch? Here's our Sweet Girl review.
- isandwell@digitalspy.co.uk
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Aug 20, 2021 · Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Sweet Girl’ on Netflix, a Real Clunker of a Jason Momoa Action Vehicle
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Aug 24, 2021 · New revenge film Sweet Girl has already taken the top spot as Netflix's number one trending film, despite only landing on the streaming site on Friday.
Aug 20, 2021 · SWEET GIRL is the latest action thriller to hit Netflix and stars Game of Thrones and Aquaman star Jason Momoa - but does the film have enough surprises to set it apart from similar movies?
- Brian Andrew Mendoza
- Jason Momoa's new Netflix movie is a fun romp that quickly sours.
- Netflix Spotlight: August 2021
- Verdict
By Siddhant Adlakha
Updated: Aug 20, 2021 5:35 pm
Posted: Aug 20, 2021 5:24 pm
Sweet Girl is now on Netflix.
Sweet Girl, an action thriller with a relevant political bent, starts out great before plateauing for a while, until eventually, it tumbles downhill. It begins as a straightforward tale of a man seeking revenge against a pharmaceutical CEO, but it eventually throws too many ideas at the wall, few of which stick and almost none of which follow through on what the film is supposedly about. It’s a shame, too, since everyone involved is working at their optimum in one scene or another.
The central revenge story doesn’t get going until the film has dispensed with four different prologues, which vary from a poorly composited foot chase in medias res, to a series of impressionistic flashbacks in which Ray Cooper (Jason Momoa), his wife Amanda (Adria Arjona) and their teenage daughter Rachel (Isabela Merced) hike through the woods. The disconnect doesn’t matter too much, since the film is still laying its groundwork. However, Momoa is clearly more suited to the action and naturalistic dialogue later on, than the initial Terrence Malick-esque voiceover about time and family during these nature scenes.
The story of a family devastated by the American healthcare system remains, but it fades into the background of a different story of a man consumed by revenge and a daughter who tries to pull him back from the brink, which would be far more engaging were it not for a pair of bafflingly handled plot turns. One is thuddingly obvious, and it gives the film’s politics a cynical and simplistic new layer that it clearly didn’t need. Meanwhile, the other arrives so suddenly and unpredictably that it feels like a cheat.
Worse yet, it retroactively re-frames the entire movie, but in a way that makes the presentation of the preceding story far less interesting in retrospect. It becomes immediately clear that the film should have gone down this road in the first place, rather than trying to pull a fast one on its audience; the reveal in question doesn’t impact the characters in the slightest, and it only serves to rob Isabela Merced of a potentially star-making turn. Sweet Girl may very well be the first film to advertise its own superior alternate cut.
Sweet Girl is front-loaded with fun action, and it has a great performance by Jason Momoa as a widower seeking vengeance against a pharma CEO. But its story slowly loses steam, before being replaced by an entirely different movie with much sillier political messaging. While it begins as a story steeped in grief — a strong enough motivation to clari...
- Siddhant Adlakha
Aug 20, 2021 · “Sweet Girl,” unfortunately, never manages to become that film because, after a certain point, it becomes more interested in outsmarting us than moving us. On Netflix today.
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