Synopsis
A man vows to bring justice to those responsible for his wife's death while protecting the only family he has left, his daughter.
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Cast
- Jason MomoaRay Cooper
- Isabela MercedRachel Cooper
- Manuel Garcia-RulfoAmo Santos
- Amy BrennemanDiana Morgan
- Adria ArjonaAmanda Cooper
- Milena RiveroRachel 11 Y / O
- Justin BarthaSimon Keeley
- Raza JaffreyVinod Shah
- Lex Scott DavisFBI Agent Sarah Meeker
- Michael Raymond-JamesFBI Agent John Rothman
Recommendations
- 70
Variety
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. - 63
RogerEbert.com
Sweet Girl is too long and disorganized, and often just too much, for its own good. It seems to want to be five, possibly six landmark 1990s and early aughts blockbusters at once. - 58
The Film Stage
Despite its shortcomings, Sweet Girl is a fairly enjoyable watch. These are easy people to root for, no matter how complicated their actions get. - 50
The A.V. Club
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. - 50
Los Angeles Times
Momoa can believably howl in anguish and throw a devastating punch, but he can’t carry a script this muddled. - 50
The New York Times
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. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
To be sure, Big Pharma execs make for natural movie villains these days, but this story could have used a tad more subtlety, something that was in short supply here. - 40
The Guardian
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.
