Atomic Blonde
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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.
What critics thought
Atomic Blonde earns mostly favorable notices on the back of Charlize Theron's commanding physical presence and a handful of genuinely inventive action sequences, but critics were divided over whether its neon-drenched Cold War style ever amounts to more than surface. Those who loved it treated the aesthetic excess as the point; detractors found the plot thin enough to drain the style of meaning.
“It's the fight scenes that count – and they're astonishingly good, from a mano-a-mano beatdown involving Theron's stiletto heel and a thug's jugular vein to a climactic free-for-all in a swanky hotel suite where 99 Luftballons scores every gunshot and gut-punch.”
Peter Travers·Rolling Stone
“largely a vacant, hyper-stylistic romp that trades on the thick Cold War atmosphere of far better films”
Jake Coyle·Associated Press
“Borrow from Bourne and Bond. Rinse and repeat. This is the recipe for the quite ridiculous, ultra-violent and deliriously entertaining Atomic Blonde, a slick vehicle for the magnetic, badass charms of Charlize Theron, who is now officially an A-list action star on the strength of this film and Mad Max: Fury Road.”
Richard Roeper·Chicago Sun-Times
Parents guide
- Violence
- severe
- Sex
- moderate
- Profanity
- moderate
- Substances
- moderate
- Intensity
- moderate
Genres
Action, Thriller
Cast & Crew
David LeitchDirector
Charlize TheronLorraine Broughton
James McAvoyDavid Percival
Eddie MarsanSpyglass
John GoodmanEmmett Kurzfeld
Toby JonesEric Gray
James FaulknerChief "C"
Roland MøllerAleksander Bremovych
Sofia BoutellaDelphine Lasalle
Bill SkarsgårdMerkel
Sam HargraveJames Gasciogne
Jóhannes Haukur JóhannessonYuri Bakhtin
Til SchweigerWatchmaker
Tyler BatesComposer
Kurt JohnstadWriter
Jonathan SelaCinematographyFrom the studio
Atomic Blonde
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.
What critics thought
Atomic Blonde earns mostly favorable notices on the back of Charlize Theron's commanding physical presence and a handful of genuinely inventive action sequences, but critics were divided over whether its neon-drenched Cold War style ever amounts to more than surface. Those who loved it treated the aesthetic excess as the point; detractors found the plot thin enough to drain the style of meaning.
“It's the fight scenes that count – and they're astonishingly good, from a mano-a-mano beatdown involving Theron's stiletto heel and a thug's jugular vein to a climactic free-for-all in a swanky hotel suite where 99 Luftballons scores every gunshot and gut-punch.”
Peter Travers·Rolling Stone
“largely a vacant, hyper-stylistic romp that trades on the thick Cold War atmosphere of far better films”
Jake Coyle·Associated Press
“Borrow from Bourne and Bond. Rinse and repeat. This is the recipe for the quite ridiculous, ultra-violent and deliriously entertaining Atomic Blonde, a slick vehicle for the magnetic, badass charms of Charlize Theron, who is now officially an A-list action star on the strength of this film and Mad Max: Fury Road.”
Richard Roeper·Chicago Sun-Times
Parents guide
- Violence
- severe
- Sex
- moderate
- Profanity
- moderate
- Substances
- moderate
- Intensity
- moderate
Genres
Action, Thriller
Cast & Crew
David LeitchDirectorCharlize TheronLorraine BroughtonJames McAvoyDavid PercivalEddie MarsanSpyglassJohn GoodmanEmmett KurzfeldToby JonesEric GrayJames FaulknerChief "C"Roland MøllerAleksander BremovychSofia BoutellaDelphine LasalleBill SkarsgårdMerkelSam HargraveJames GasciogneJóhannes Haukur JóhannessonYuri BakhtinTil SchweigerWatchmakerTyler BatesComposerKurt JohnstadWriterJonathan SelaCinematographyFrom the studio
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