Blake Lively’s new filmThe Rhythm Sectionopens Friday — and the reviews are already in!
The action thriller, which also starsJude LawandSterling K. Brown,has been met with mixed reactions, though Lively’s performance is largely being praised.
In a review forForbes,Scott Mendelson notesthat Lively delivers a “terrific lead performance” in the Reed Morano-directed thriller.
“Lively is terrific as an utterly destroyed young woman slowly bringing herself to take revenge for the deaths of her family three years prior,” Mendelson writes, but goes on to say the overall film does not succeed as the “worldwide international espionage actioner” it pitches itself as. “The mood is far closer toTinker Tailor Soldier SpythanSkyfall.”
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Eon, the production company behindBond movies, adaptedThe Rhythm Sectionfrom a Mark Burnell novel published in 1999 and as such, it is “a thriller from a different era,”reviewer James Dyer wrote inEmpire.
Varietycalls the filma “dark, broody and unexpectedly human payback thriller,” going on to praise Lively much in the same vein as other reviews — “This isn’t an easy role, but Lively aces it.”
At the New York City premiere of the film,Lively jokedthat her daughter would be “terrified” if she knew what her character did in the movie.
“Can you imagine if my daughter knew what I went through in this movie? I mean, they would be terrified!” the actress told PEOPLE. “She’d either be terrified for me or of me, neither of which is something that I want her to feel.”
The Rhythm Sectionis in theaters Jan. 31.
source: people.com
