The Rhythm Section Dvd

The Rhythm Section is a 2020 action thriller film directed by Reed Morano and written by Mark Burnell, based on Burnell’s novel of the same name. The film stars Blake Lively, Jude Law, and Sterling K. Brown, and follows a grieving woman who sets out for revenge after discovering the plane crash that killed her family was a terrorist attack.

The Rhythm Section was released in the United States on January 31, 2020, by Paramount Pictures. The film received negative reviews from critics and was a box-office bomb, having the worst wide-opening weekend of all time and the biggest drop in theaters, with Paramount projected to lose $30–40 million.

Plot

Three years after her family’s death in a plane crash, Stephanie Patrick has become a drug-addicted sex worker in London. She is approached by journalist Keith Proctor, who believes the plane crash was a terrorist attack covered up by the government. Escaping her brothel, Stephanie starts living with Proctor and studies his research on the crash, which he explains was caused by a bomb made by a man named Reza, who attends university in London. Stephanie buys a gun and finds Reza, but cannot bring herself to shoot him and is humiliated when he indirectly mocks her and leaves. Hours later, she returns to Proctor’s apartment and finds him murdered.

Through Proctor’s notes, she discovers his confidential source is “B”, a disgraced MI6 agent named Iain Boyd. She travels to Scotland and finds Boyd living in seclusion; after she explains that she has nothing to lose and wants revenge, he reluctantly agrees to train her to hunt down Reza. Boyd explains that Reza was hired by a terrorist known only as U-17, who downed the plane to kill liberal Muslim reformer Abdul Kaif; Kaif’s father Suleman funded Proctor’s investigation into the crash. Stephanie trains for months to assume the identity of Petra Reuter, an assassin killed by Boyd whose body was never found.

As Petra, Boyd sends her to Madrid to find Marc Serra, an ex-CIA agent turned information broker, who may lead her to U-17. Stephanie asks Suleman to finance her mission; he refuses, but Kaif’s mother Alia offers her the money. Stephanie tracks down Reza and leaves him to die in a bus bombing. Alia thanks her and returns her father’s ring. Realizing that Serra is U-17 and has been lying to her from the beginning, Stephanie kills him with a syringe at his home. Two weeks later, Boyd confronts Stephanie in London, revealing that he will be allowed back into MI6 if he eliminates “Petra”. Warned to disappear, Stephanie walks away having finally found peace.

Cast

Blake Lively as Stephanie Patrick, a woman who lost her entire family in a plane crash, causing her to develop a drug addiction and become a prostitute to support her habit. Upon learning that the crash was staged, she trains for months under a former spy, learning combat, intelligence-gathering, and disguise skills, and taking the identity of freelance assassin Petra Reuter.
Jude Law as Iain Boyd, a former MI6 operative who now lives in a cabin somewhere in rural Scotland. He becomes Stephanie’s mentor and handler as she investigates her family’s deaths.
Sterling K. Brown as Marc Serra, a former CIA officer who now makes a living as a private intelligence broker.
Max Casella as Leon Giler
Daniel Mays as Dean West
Geoff Bell as Green
Richard Brake as Lehmans
Raza Jaffrey as Keith Proctor
Tawfeek Barhom as Reza
David Duggan as David Patrick
Nasser Memarzia as Suleman Kaif
Amira Ghazalla as Alia Kaif