Ray Cooper (Jason Momoa) is furious that his wife (Adria Arjona) died because some scumbag pharmaceutical CEO (Justin Bartha) shelved a generic version of the lifesaving drug that was fighting her cancer. He threatens the CEO on live television and swears he will make them pay. He trains his teenage daughter Rachel (Isabela Merced) to defend herself and the two go on a journey of revenge.
Hey, remember The Uninvited? Maybe the vastly superior Korean horror it ripped off, A Tale of Two Sisters? This is the same thing, except in a generic action movie instead of horror. Which is not, in and of itself, a bad thing. Action movies can have third act twists. It doesn't have to be A+B=C all the time. I just wish this one hadn't been quite so convinced that its audience was stupid. Every beat is force-fed into your eyeballs with foreshadowing so heavy it comes with a two-man lift warning.
Merced is trying hard to shed her Dora the Explorer image and positioning herself as a pint-sized action star. Awesome. Give me more tiny chicks kicking ass. Hopefully, this will just be a blip on her resume as she moves on to bigger and better things. Also, a special shout-out to Manuel Garcia-Rulfo for playing the most interesting character in the whole film. His assassin was calm, competent, appropriately nondescript, and a voice of reason. Beautiful.
Sweet Girl is streaming on Netflix. It's not worth it.
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