Sweet Girl Movie Review: ​An unbearably dull tale of a father-daughter duo trying to uncover a big pharma scam

Sweet Girl is an action-packed revenge thriller that explores the various nuances, struggles and challenges of this father-daughter duo. While the premise revolves around exposing a big pharma scam that’s killing many innocent lives, the film still fails at many levels to tug at your heartstrings. Even though the movie has all the right elements to strike the right chord with the audience, it fails on many counts. While it is established later in the film that Jason is a sparring professional and his wife a dancer, it would have been nice to get that sense of helplessness, struggles and the challenges he had to face when undergoing a tremendous emotionally difficult phase soon after his wife’s untimely death, which he believes is due to the unavailability of the medicines at the last minute.Over a span of 24 months, the father not just trains his daughter in sparring but has charted out an elaborate plan on how to avenge Amanda’s death. Enter the hypothetical reputed pharma company BioPrime and its infamous CEO Simon Keeley (Justin Bartha), and their first target whom they successfully bring down. Things begin to spiral out of control the moment they embark on this mission and are now pronounced wanted fugitives. And while they are still able to somehow manage to eliminate the targets on their list, which also includes a hitman who had earlier attacked them, the film seems to look and feel dull. The only saving grace was the twist at the end that helps you stay awake for a few minutes. With the father-daughter bond being at the centre of it all, somehow that chemistry was missing between Jason and Isabela. For a film that’s supposed to rely heavily on it, it misses the mark as there are just a few action sequences that look incredibly dull. The makers could have explored the relationship that forms between Rachel and the FBI detective Sarah Meeker (Lex Scott Davis) a bit more.Sweet Girl, directed by Brian Andrew Mendoza and written by Philip Eisner and Gregg Hurwitz, is unfortunately a dull attempt to blend action and emotions, especially when you have such good actors on board.