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Originally Posted by MrBarlow  Atomic Blonde. 2017.
A list of double agents is missing, MI6 sends a female agent to Germany during the fall of the Berlin wall to retrieve the list.
We got a hot blonde Charlize Theron explaining what went on to Toby Jones and John Goodman with her contact James McAvoy and meeting a French agent Sofia Boutella who becomes her lover. We are given decent fight scenes that are believable and well choreographed, good shoot outs and decent car chases and crashes but the plot itself is something that seems to be rushed in some parts and other bits just drag on or it just me that thinks that? Doubt I'd return to this one. |
I've seen
Atomic Blonde several times and think I enjoyed it more on the second viewing than the first, and subsequent viewings have been enjoyable and rewarding.
Because the plot is fairly complex and involves characters who are intent on crossing and doublecrossing each other, and perhaps an unreliable narrator, I think I was able to relax and go with the flow when I saw it the second time, whereas the first viewing involved a lot of concentration in order to keep up with the narrative, plot points, and the characters' perturbations.
It's not quite the same, but I would compare it favourably to
Salt, the Phillip Noyce film that should have launched a series of spy thrillers with Angelina Jolie.