Atomic Blonde
Atomic Blonde
R | 28 July 2017 (USA)
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An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.

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Evengyny

Thanks for the memories!

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Unlimitedia

Sick Product of a Sick System

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Stevecorp

Don't listen to the negative reviews

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AnhartLinkin

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

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a_chinn

From the uncredited co-director of "John Wick" comes an action film of equal badassery. Charlize Theron is dynamite in this Cold War action film, where she plays an undercover MI6 agent tasked with recovering a missing list of undercover agents. The plot is perfunctory at best, but it does serve to take Theron through a 1989 East and West Berlin right before the wall came down, featuring 80s punks, neon drenched nightclubs, and a killer soundtrack that ranges from The Clash, to David Bowie, to Queen, and loads more. "Atomic Blonde" would have been a solid action film without the Cold War 80s setting, but adding this retro element turned this film's cool factor up to eleven. Theron is amazingly 80s cool with her short hair and go-go boots, but shines most strongly when she's kicking ass (she actually did a majority of her fighting and stunt work on the film). Enough cannot be said of how much Theron adds to this film. She's an Oscar calibre of actress starring in an unabashedly popcorn film, which greatly elevates "Atomic Blonde" from if the filmmakers had simply cast a pretty face like Milla Jovovich or even legit badasses like MMA fighter Gina Carano (everyone should watch her film "Haywire" though). It also helps that you have a solid supporting cast that includes Toby Jones, John Goodman, and James McAvoy as a terrifically sleazy undercover agent. The other hero of this film is director David Leitch, who bring the same level of relentlessly intense action he brought to the John Wick films. The fight scenes and shoots outs are as fast as a Hong Kong action film, but also embrace the more muscular American approach to action films, which adds up to a style of action that feels like something wholly new (Kurt Wimmer's "Gun-Fu" in "Equilibrium" and "Ultraviolet" was the last new style of film action I can recall that felt like something new and not tried before). As with the best action films, the action builds, starting smaller at first to a quite impressive climactic action sequence. I think the apartment fight sequence that gives the appearance of being one long continuous shot is the most impressive action sequence of the film, but "Atomic Blonde" is filled with memorable action scenes. Overall, even though the script is heavy on plot cliches and is short on character development, who really cares when the you have Charlize Theron taking out rooms full of dudes in knee-high boots to awesome 80s tracks!

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Leofwine_draca

ATOMIC BLONDE is a generally well-made and fine-looking Cold War action thriller, featuring a now-hot Charlize Theron in the titular role as a female agent modelled on James Bond. She indulges in some passionate sex and attempts to pick her way through a murky conspiracy, battling and beating up henchmen at every turn. The film was made by one of the JOHN WICK directors and features a string of violent set-pieces which possess good cinematography and choreography. My main complaint lies with the lazy soundtrack, which plays loud, '80s era pop songs over all of the big scenes. I love '80s music but it's done intrusively here and is a lazy way of transmitting emotion. The good news is that, towards the end of the film, there's a lengthy tracking-shot fight scene which dispenses with the music altogether and is the highlight of the movie, a violent and frenetic bit of filmmaking which is worth the admission alone. The film is guity of going through the motions a bit, but the action makes it a worthwhile watch.

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griffithsjdavid

It's not Shakespeare, but its entertaining and beautifully put together with a great soundtrack.

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Mikael Rönnbäck

Atomic Blonde is a great "modern classic" cold war spy thriller mixed with lots of action. There's a lot of effort done in getting the scenes and surroundings to feel like it was 1989 again. And to top it off all of the film music are the great old electronic and industrial classics which brings back nostalgic memories. I loved this movie.

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