
SWEET GIRL (L-R): ISABELA MERCED as RACHEL, JASON MAMOA as RAY COOPER. CLAY ENOS/NETFLIX © 2021
In the initial scene of his new thrill ride debuting on Netflix, Jason Momoa plunges off the highest point of a baseball arena into a stream far beneath. No, he’s not playing Aquaman but instead Ray Cooper, a customary common person. Or if nothing else the kind of common person who can kick ass and dispatch prepared professional killers as though he’s been doing it for his entire life.
After that preface, the film misleadingly proceeds as though it were a touchy dramatization, with Ray and his teen little girl, Rachel (Isabela Merced, Dora and the Lost City of Gold), taking care of the medical clinic bedside of frantically sick spouse and mother Amanda (Adria Arjona). Their PCP guarantees that help is in transit as a wonderful medication that can fix Amanda’s uncommon malignant growth. Lamentably, their expectations are run when the drug organization very quickly pulls it off the market.A distressed Ray doesn’t by and large shroud his sentiments when he calls into a TV meet with the organization’s smarmy CEO, Simon Keeley (Justin Bartha), and compromises, “If my significant other kicks the bucket, it’s your capital punishment.” Not longer get-togethers, does surely bite the dust, and it becomes obvious what sort of retribution thrill ride Sweet Girl means to be.
A resulting surreptitious gathering among Ray and an analytical columnist closes severely when the writer is brutally killed and Ray takes part in an awful fight with the executioner, experiencing a cut injury simultaneously. His ensuing fierce experience with Keeley brings about various fatalities, after which Ray and Rachel flee. They’re sought after by a couple of FBI specialists, including the thoughtful Sarah (Lex Scott Davis), who builds up a compatibility with Rachel after the concerned young lady calls her.
While the connection among Ray and Rachel, who demonstrates as hard-edged a warrior as her father, is movingly portrayed, Sweet Girl rapidly deteriorates into a careless series of ultraviolent hand-to-hand battle successions. The film’s actual stars are the trick and battle facilitators who render these conflicts in instinctive, for the most part practical style, despite the fact that they in the long run lose sway through their sheer dreariness.
Believability is stressed to the limit when Ray shows an uncanny capacity to beat the miscreants, including a smooth professional killer (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, discreetly taking the film) who can shoot individuals without taking a gander at them. It’s stressed considerably more when the minor, not by and large impressive Rachel features comparable capacities, in spite of the fact that her undiscovered animosity is motioned in an early scene in which she lets completely go during a boxing exercise and almost kills her male adversary. Surprisingly, Merced figures out how to offer her person’s battling abilities to a critical degree, while Momoa is so actually threatening that you can’t help thinking about why Ray isn’t a WWE star.