
Year: 2020
Rated R
Rating: * * * Stars
Cast: Blake Lively, Jude Law, Sterling K. Brown
"Think of your heart as the drums, your breathing as the bass". That's a quote from 2020's The Rhythm Section. Get it? "Rhythm" trades instruments for knives and guns with hollow point rounds. The "tempo" demonstrated here is mostly palatable.
Anyway, The Rhythm Section is vastly underrated and kinda overrated at the same time. Many a spy/revenge thriller have come before it. Oh well. "Rhythm" has sloppy yet effective action scenes that come in fits and starts. The dialogue that emerges from the actors mouths is confidently pithy and that's a good thing.

Law and Lively give solid performances that heighten the almost a la mode material. Law channels his inner badass while Lively digs deep into character with nerve endings manifested. Normally elegant-looking and bright-eyed, Blake Lively appears a little weathered in "Rhythm". I'm not kidding. Her persona was once a drug addict and a prostitute so the phrase, "you look just like I feel" gets a whole new meaning.

Written by Jesse Burleson
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