Sweet Girl

Name: Sweet Girl
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Released: August 20, 2021
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 46
Cast: Adria Arjona, Amy Brenneman, Brian Howe, Isabela Moner, Jason Momoa

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Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): August 20, 2021 | R

Starring: Adria Arjona, Amy Brenneman, Brian Howe, Isabela Moner, Jason Momoa, Justin Bartha, Katy M. O'Brian, Lex Scott Davis, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Michael Raymond-James, Nelson Franklin, Reggie Lee

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).

Director: Brian Andrew Mendoza

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Thriller

Rating: R

Runtime: 96 min

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Nick Schager

Aug 20, 2021

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. Read full review

Screen Rant Ferdosa Abdi

Aug 22, 2021

Ultimately, Sweet Girl doesn’t necessarily reinvent the wheel or anything, but it tries to have fun with its material nonetheless. Read full review

Craig D. Lindsey

Aug 20, 2021

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. Read full review

Roxana Hadadi

Aug 20, 2021

Momoa can believably howl in anguish and throw a devastating punch, but he can’t carry a script this muddled. Read full review

IndieWire Kristen Lopez

Aug 22, 2021

Sweet Girl is dumb in all the ways you expect, and yet with Isabella Merced things feel understandable. It’s just frustrating that the twist undermines her, outside of being utterly weird. That being said, if they wanted to greenlight a “Sweet Girl 2” and give Merced her due, I’ll be waiting. Read full review

The Guardian Benjamin Lee

Aug 20, 2021

Thinly etched topicality only gets the film so far (the script is very “I read an article once”) and when the action mechanics kick into gear, it’s yet more of the same with very little to distinguish it from the pack. Read full review

The Playlist Andrew Crump

Aug 20, 2021

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. Read full review

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RiverWard

Aug 21, 2021

This film has a great story with some intense action scenes. Some of the action scenes are predictable but some scenes will surprise you completely. I found this film relevant to our time and fun to watch.

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obinna-u

Aug 6, 2022

Everything was in the right proportion and the plot twist was *chefs kiss .

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Inuarcer

Aug 21, 2021

It's a nice movie with a cool plot twist and cool action. Ideal for a popcorn evening.

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JLuis_001

Aug 25, 2021

It's exhausting because of how generic it is. And although perhaps the script with a pharmaceutical company in the middle as the villain of the story could've lent itself to something more productive, the story never does anything relevant with it.

Sweet Girl is simply the classic actionIt's exhausting because of how generic it is. And although perhaps the script with a pharmaceutical company in the middle as the villain of the story could've lent itself to something more productive, the story never does anything relevant with it.

Sweet Girl is simply the classic action movie that goes absolutely nowhere, because it just hopes that your entertainment is tied to you buying the complete implausibility of its story.
Especially its totally unconventional plot twist.

It's Netflix though, so it's not surprising at all.… Expand

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MattBrady99

Sep 3, 2021

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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MetacriticOnur

Aug 20, 2021

bad
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adjective, worse, worst;(Slang) bad·der, bad·dest for 36.
not good in any manner or degree.

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Alice26

Aug 22, 2021

Begin was interesting , after it became so boring as hell. With that base we could see much more interesting story and the end was so u logical as hell!! Jason mama was bitten up by little guy, and at the end a little girl kicked everyone them ass.

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