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‘The Wasp’ Review: Naomie Harris and Natalie Dormer Play Old Friends With Fresh Grievances
In 'The Wasp,' helmer Guillem Morales tries to trick the audience with too many plot twists, but winds up diluting the effectiveness of his thriller.
It’s a gruesome idea that writer-director Guillem Morales clearly intends to circle back around to in his twisty two-hander, which stars Natalie Dormer and Harris as two former friends embroiled in a cat-and-mouse game of violence and intimidation. The disparity in their social and economic standing serves as an obvious plot motivation for Carla to be desperate to take whatever Heather is offering, though the screenplay by Morgan Lloyd Maclolm, which is based on his play of the same title, fails to utilize that to complicate the characters or their relationship to each other. Together they build a palpable sense of both hatred and attraction, and yet, every time that tension comes close to boiling over, Malcolm and Morales cut away to a flashback where Heather and Carla are played by Leah Mondesir-Simmonds and Olivia Juno-Cleverley, respectively.
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