X
- 2021
- R
- Netflix
- 1 h 50 m
- 2021
- R
- Netflix
- 1 h 50 m
Summary A devastated husband (Jason Momoa) vows to bring justice to the people responsible for his wife’s death while protecting the only family he has left, his daughter (Isabela Merced).
Directed By: Brian Andrew Mendoza
Written By: Gregg Hurwitz, Philip Eisner
- 2021
- R
- Netflix
- 1 h 50 m
- 2021
- R
- Netflix
- 1 h 50 m
Sweet Girl
46
5.0
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Summary A devastated husband (Jason Momoa) vows to bring justice to the people responsible for his wife’s death while protecting the only family he has left, his daughter (Isabela Merced).
Directed By: Brian Andrew Mendoza
Written By: Gregg Hurwitz, Philip Eisner
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
46
13% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
69% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
19% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
46
13% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
69% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
19% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Aided by Steven Price’s enthusiastic score, Mendoza’s vigorous direction keeps things speeding along, and Momoa is such a charismatic presence — whether sensitively interacting with Rachel (skillfully embodied by Merced) or inventively snapping an adversary’s neck — that the proceedings’ lack of realism works to its advantage.
Despite its shortcomings, Sweet Girl is a fairly enjoyable watch. These are easy people to root for, no matter how complicated their actions get.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 41 User Ratings
5.0
32% Positive
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
27% Mixed
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
41% Negative
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 41 User Ratings
5.0
32% Positive
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
27% Mixed
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
41% Negative
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
Sweet Girl is exciting, with Jason Momoa and Isabela Merced amazing performance, this is a great and exciting action film with a sad and heartbreaking story plus a twist that surprisingly works so well.
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The film’s true stars are the stunt and fight coordinators who render these clashes in visceral, mostly realistic fashion, although they eventually lose impact through their sheer repetitiveness.
For this action film, the director Brian Andrew Mendoza favors a utilitarian style. His color palette leans toward grays, blues and browns. His fight scenes are not flashy, or even particularly memorable, but they are clear, effectively conveying the necessary information about whose fist has connected with whose face.
As hellaciously predictable and preposterous as Sweet Girl is, it could win over viewers nursing their own grudge against Big Pharma. Mainly, though, this is a vehicle for its star, that brawny softie Momoa.
The occasional decently-staged fight or grace note here stands out, because there aren’t many. A story this badly constructed with dialogue this stilted and characters this thin is simply beneath Momoa, at this stage.
No one should ask Sweet Girl to be something it isn’t, namely an affecting drama about pharmaceutical evils. For one, it’s self-serious enough as is. But there’s a vast difference between self-seriousness and taking the subject matter seriously.
After his wife dies, her husband (Jason Momoa) decides to seek revenge on the greedy pharma company that made her cure too expensive. After his first attempt goes wrong, he and his daughter (Isabela Merced) go on the lam to save themselves and exact that payback. Despite the absurdity of several of the situations (ex: almost every time they get into a **** in public, nobody else is around), the action is solid and the pace keeps them running. Momoa’s early scene grief is truly heartbreaking and he ably manages to play the soft part of his tough character. Merced holds her own thru the frustration and the entanglements. There’s nothing especially original here, but if you can ignore reality and just enjoy the improbably chase, it’s a sturdy little summer diversion.
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Sweet girl is an unofficial sequel to Terminator. The attacker from the metro takes lethal blows as if they are balloons, even tough a single punch or push against a pole is enough to land in the hospital. But not this Terminator who throws a 220 lbs weighing Jason Momoa through a fortified window... Buuuullshiiiiiit!
Well... At least his daughter is a treat to look at. Unfortunately the father and daughter aren't quiet smart, as they immediately become lowlife criminals and murderers after the death of a 'so called' journalist.
Mediocre movie that fails to immerse or entertain the viewer. Actors don't seem to be immersed in their roles, and stumble towards the end with little weight behind it. 3/10.
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Jason Momoa alone got me through this, but man that twist ending ruined what was already an uneven movie. It only made sense afterwards when I found out that one of the writers wrote 'The Book of Henry', a movie that got crazy as it went along.
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