Atomic Blonde (2017)
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.
Despite sporting some terrific fight sequences and Charlize Theron looking super stylish, i found the story to be completely uninvolving at best and derivative at worst, it's Cold War Berlin setting just that a setting and not really part of the plot, meaning it failed to grab me and a sense of detachment soon kicked in.
The film had a rather cool 80's synth soundtrack featuring the likes of Depeche Mode and David Bowie but it's a case of style over substance more than anything else in an attempt to be cool but it just felt sterile and self aware.
Disappointing.
|