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Jul 26, 2017 · A French spy and potential love interest named Delphine ( Sofia Boutella) challenges Lorraine, but even she is initially untrustworthy since she employs the same used car salesman "trust me" tactics as Lorraine's counterparts (the first time they meet, Delphine offers to "rescue" Lorraine).
Jul 28, 2017 · Atomic Blonde gets enough mileage out of its stylish action sequences -- and ever-magnetic star -- to make up for a narrative that's somewhat less hard-hitting than its protagonist. Read...
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Jul 27, 2017 · Charlize Theron plays a spy in “Atomic Blonde,” which comes off like a highlight reel of car crashes and inventively choreographed fights.
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- Manohla Dargis
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Atomic Blonde falls squarely in the middle between James Bond and John Wick, bringing the exciting spy chase of the former while upping the violence level, but not quite reaching that of the...
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By Alex Welch
Updated: Jul 18, 2017 2:59 pm
Posted: Jul 17, 2017 7:59 pm
In any other film, Atomic Blonde’s rock ‘n roll attitude and flippant disinterest in the actual facts surrounding its historical backdrop might have been seriously damaging. But Atomic Blonde has Charlize Theron as MI6 agent Lorraine Broughton, who kicks more ass than any other character this year, including even Keanu Reeves’ John Wick. That might be considered an overstatement if it weren’t for the fact that Atomic Blonde is directed by original John Wick co-director, David Leitch, who brings to life here the same keen visual eye for stylish, propulsive fight scenes and creating graphic novel-like visuals as he did in that 2014 film.
From its opening seconds, Atomic Blonde lets you know what kind of a movie it is. Set in East Berlin in 1989 with only a few more days to go until the Berlin Wall is torn down, the film opens with raw footage of President Ronald Reagan making his famous speech in front of the wall. But then the footage is cut short, with a couple lines of text explaining the historical significance of the time, before all of the words are quickly covered in neon-green spray paint, proclaiming, “This is not that story.”
Indeed, that is the attitude at the beating heart of Atomic Blonde, which uses the destruction of the Berlin Wall as little more than window dressing. The film is less interested in the political and societal turmoil that was festering at that time, and more in the muddled and convoluted spy games that may have been taking place behind-the-scenes, in shady dealings and interactions between undercover agents in the territory. And it's even more interested than all of that in just how many enemies Lorraine has to take down to accomplish her mission.
Atomic Blonde is an action spy thriller, that leans more heavily into being a John Wick film than it does a John le Carré-esque espionage tale, and the battle between those two tones can be occasionally distracting throughout. But Atomic Blonde has attitude aplenty and the fervent style of its execution is so staggering and exciting to watch that i...
- Alex Welch
Jul 28, 2017 · Atomic Blonde: Directed by David Leitch. With Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, Eddie Marsan, John Goodman. 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.
Mar 13, 2017 · Review: ‘Atomic Blonde’. Charlize Theron cuts a bloody swath through 1989 Berlin in this technically-dazzling yet fundamentally empty action pic. By Andrew Barker. Courtesy of Jonathan...
