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Old 31st December 2017, 12:19 PM
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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.
100% agree, I rented this the other night and it's one of my biggest film disappointments of the year, I was so excited for it after the trailer but just under an hour in I was actually bored, at least it was just a rental though I thought and not £15 spent...
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