Wasp Network

Name: Wasp Network
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Released: June 19, 2020
Duration: 127 min
Rating: 54
Cast: Ana de Armas, Brannon Cross, Édgar Ramírez, Eric Goode, Gael García Bernal

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Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): June 19, 2020 | TV-MA

Starring: Ana de Armas, Brannon Cross, Édgar Ramírez, Eric Goode, Gael García Bernal, Gisela Chipe, Harlys Becerra, Julian Flynn, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Michael Vitovich, Nolan Guerra, Osdeymi Pastrana, Penélope Cruz, Steve Howard, Tony Plana, Wagner Moura

Summary: René González (Edgar Ramírez) is a Cuban pilot who leaves his wife (Penelope Cruz) and young daughter behind in the communist island nation to defect to the United States and begin a new life of freedom in the early 1990s. But René is not the upstart American striver he appears to be. Joining forces with a group of Cuban exiles in SouthRené González (Edgar Ramírez) is a Cuban pilot who leaves his wife (Penelope Cruz) and young daughter behind in the communist island nation to defect to the United States and begin a new life of freedom in the early 1990s. But René is not the upstart American striver he appears to be. Joining forces with a group of Cuban exiles in South Florida known as the Wasp Network — led by undercover operative Manuel Viramontez a.k.a. Gerardo Hernandez (Gaël García Bernal) — he becomes part of a pro-Castro spy ring tasked with observing and infiltrating Cuban-American terror groups intent upon attacking the socialist republic.… Expand

Director: Olivier Assayas

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Crime

Rating: TV-MA

Runtime: 127 min

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Glenn Kenny

Jun 18, 2020

There are times in which Wasp Network feels like a John le Carré tale drenched in Miami sun, or even a serious-minded “Top Gun” variant. But it’s also a provocative demonstration of how strange life can get when the political and the personal intertwine like roots of a mammoth tree. Read full review

Jay Weissberg

Sep 1, 2019

It leaves viewers gratified by the filmmaking bravura and the sheer pleasure of watching this superb cast in top form, but also feeling shortchanged. Read full review

Chris Barsanti

Jun 18, 2020

The final product feels like more of an interesting and beautifully filmed anecdote than compelling political and human drama. Read full review

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Jun 17, 2020

The initial hour is a tightly wound piece of directorial surveillance in Assayas’ trademark style, fluidly tracking the obscure motives and movements of the characters. The rest is a lot less compelling. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Jun 22, 2020

There’s too much to Wasp Network, much of it good, to dismiss it out of hand. But it only takes an hour of this two hour-plus movie for us to figure out Assayas wasn’t the right writer-director to pull it off. Read full review

Richard Roeper

Jun 18, 2020

Deadly serious people are involved in deadly serious business in “Wasp Network,” and there’s an air of importance and urgency to their every move, and we should be utterly immersed in this story — but we’re not. Not even close. Read full review

Ty Burr

Jun 17, 2020

The thrill of watching an Olivier Assayas movie is that you often have no idea where it’s going next. This time out, it seems, neither does he. Read full review

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Stef23

Jun 22, 2020

Great movie!! A must see. It has depth and it has twists to make it a complete movie that is memorable. You won’t feel like it was wasted time.

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JLuis_001

Jul 25, 2020

Olivier Assayas is a director who's not afraid to tackle different set of ranges of drama and tension in his films and most of the time he has been successful, but with Wasp Network he failed notably by presenting a film that feels ambitious, yet it never gets to exploit properly its mostOlivier Assayas is a director who's not afraid to tackle different set of ranges of drama and tension in his films and most of the time he has been successful, but with Wasp Network he failed notably by presenting a film that feels ambitious, yet it never gets to exploit properly its most interesting elements.

His most recent installment, is an adaptation of the book The Last Soldiers of the Cold War.
The story is about a group of spies that infiltrated various Cuban-American groups in the 90s. So it goes without saying the story was quite interesting and above all had the additional advantage of being a true story.

Wasp Network is a film that feels that was intended to be more complex but cannot deliver and becomes an experience full of irregularity.
Not only did it fail to become a better drama but it also falls short of becoming a much more thrilling story despite having the elements to do it.
The cast may be enough to draw audiences, but Assayas doesn't give them much to explore.

The film lacks depth despite having a dense narrative, and gets to a point where perspective is somewhat lost considering the implications and political scenario of the events surrounding the characters' actions.

It was a good idea but the execution didn't feel right.… Expand

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Faherrerav

Jun 20, 2020

More than a movie that flows in a coherent manner, it is one sided feeble attempt to support Cuba’s Oppressive regime.

1 of 7 users found this helpful16

jfbarboza

Jun 22, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The narrative is poorly constructed at more than a hour of the movie there’s a narrator that has never been heard before, dialogues are on the nose and the scenes seems to be isolated one from the other… Expand

0 of 6 users found this helpful06

Chiriviv83

Jun 23, 2020

Lying version of the story where figures from Miami's historic exile are ridiculed, an affront to the pain of the mothers and family of the victims of "Brothers to the rescue". Bad performances, poor photography ... waste of time in seeing a story badly told and of very bad production.

1 of 7 users found this helpful16

roli24k

Jun 25, 2020

This is trash! defamatory to hermanos al rescate free cubans saving other cubans from dying in the ocean, just cuban communist propaganda

1 of 7 users found this helpful16

JesusAGonzalez

Jun 23, 2020

Horrible Movie! Simply a waste of my time! No way I will watch a movie from this director again and almost cancelled Netflix for this piece of propaganda, if it wasn’t for my kids I’d be out!

1 of 7 users found this helpful16

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