Atomic Blonde (2017)

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

The film does have a few plot holes, does get lost in some blue tint but is never predictable at times. In no way is this as bad as some users complain. The woman is beautiful. I beat off to her. Her acting is solid, her body is almost on point. A good Charlize Theron performance no doubt. The film IS worth seeing and IS worth paying for, especially if you like the slim shapely women who show off rock hard assets. Also, no respect for the 1 star reviewers out there. ByeEdit: hello IMDB and users how do you edit your name? This is so silly IMDB allows you to edit your reviews but does not allow you to edit your user name. I need this corrected right away.

An undercover agent is tasked with recovering a 'list' during the Cold War, but ends up being 'made' and subsequently killed. When the list ends up in the 'wrong' hands and goes missing it's down to M16's best agent Lorraine Broughton (Charlize Theron) to head to Berlin to recover the list...In Atomic Blonde it becomes fairly evident early on that the story is a little old hat and that very little has been done to reinvent the wheel, but at the same time unoriginality doesn't always have to be viewed negatively as long as it is taken in context.The good news about Atomic Blonde is that it does have a sort of kinetic flow about it which means that despite its faults it isn't a dull film and rarely becomes boring - it sometimes feels like a female John Wick film although given its female heroine it probably shares more in common with the Angelina Jolie film Salt. The ass kicking aspect of the film is fun to watch, but unfortunately for me the fight sequences form the most memorable aspects of the film. The story is pretty meh and didn't really do much to draw me in - the predictable nature of the narrative didn't help either to be honest.I think what made it worse is the film's lack of humour; it's far too serious for its own good and despite McAvoy and Theron's occasional attempts at interplay the film falls flat in this respect and once again falls back on the fight sequences, which incidentally, are fairly well choreographed, but are not really up there with the best action films.The acting is fairly good and does raise the film up a notch; Theron does a great job as a no nonsense M16 agent, but she's perhaps a bit too no nonsense and more light-hearted relief from her would have served the film better. McAvoy is once again excellent and is probably the best thing about this film. Boutella is also good with a rather limited character and superb character actor Eddie Marsan also shines as well.Atomic Blonde isn't terrible, but it's fairly uninspiring and for me it just didn't do much to set the juices flow. Having said that, it does have some rather nice girl-on-girl action which did offset some of the tedium and resulted in a film that I couldn't entirely hate even though it wasn't all that good.

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!

Really enjoyed this film, some of her fight scenes were absolutely fantastic, the 10 minute scene in the building in berlin was amazing, i truly thought it was all done in one long take (until I read otherwise) with her being thrown down stairs, stabbing/shooting and beating the crap of about 10 guys all the way down! I like the gay storyline as its different, she obviously looks gorgeous as ever and seems to be convincing in any character she's given. James macavoy is a personal favourite anyway, but he is also a great "bad guy" and love his scenes. The film had me guessing right the way through and LOVE the ending. Its not a film you have to see at the cinema, but great if it comes on the tele and want a unique, action packed watch!