{"id":8232,"date":"2020-01-29T18:01:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T23:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=8232"},"modified":"2020-01-29T18:02:19","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T23:02:19","slug":"review-the-rhythm-section","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=8232","title":{"rendered":"Review: THE RHYTHM SECTION"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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\u201cThe Rhythm Section\u201d is neither a full-throated action thriller nor a serious drama that explores the relationship between revenge and grief. Director Reed Morano\u2019s film, in which she works from a script by novelist Mark Burnell, tries to be both of those things at once. It\u2019s an uneven approach that fails to carry a melodious tune.

The failure, though, isn\u2019t an uninteresting one. The movie is well cast. Blake Lively gives her all here as the downtrodden Stephanie Patrick. We meet Stephanie in London, where she\u2019s been living in a brothel and working as a prostitute. She looks terrible\u2014dirty, bruised, and her character is a heroin user. Stephanie is the sole surviving member of her family, who were killed in a plane crash three years earlier.

It\u2019s striking to see Lively in such a pathetic position. And this look continues almost throughout the film\u2014the character adopts a scruffy haircut and appears in various combinations of ill-fitting, goodwill clothing. It\u2019s unpleasant, a mood that permeates this irksome narrative. Unlike what David Leitch did with similar material in his 2017 film \u201cAtomic Blonde,\u201d director Morano has decided not to glamorize Stephanie\u2019s transition from wounded soul to international contract killer. \u201cThe Rhythm Section\u201d could easily be called the anti-\u201cAtomic Blonde.\u201d

Read the rest of Jonathan’s review online and in print in the Times-Herald: https:\/\/newnan.com\/2020\/01\/29\/the-rhythm-section-strikes-a-discordant-tone\/<\/a>

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