Fine acting and set design but what a silly story which is poorly directed.
Three decent action scenes but the rest of it was meh.
Not as bad as Prometheus but still kicking about the A Million Ways to Die in the West standard...
Prometheus is a great movie to those with great minds. This movie was pretty decent except that Charlize was extremely overpowered compared to the KGB and other trained killers. Why is everyone such a bad shot except for the star of the movie?
shareOh,please---this was a pretty good and tight above-average thriller----the whole part of the film where Lorraine has to beat the hell out of several different villains who come at her and the spy she's trying to protect was, for me, worth paying to see by itself. The fight scenes were far better filmed and much more realistic than in the BOURNE films---all of which I liked, btw. Love hearing all the '80s tunes (since the film was set in the '80s, that was to be expected) some of which you never hear on the radio anymore, like an old favorite of mine, "The Politics of Dancing" by Reflex (that's the one played when Lorraine goes to the bar and picks up the other spy who's been spying on her.) Nice to see the always-hot and talented James McAvoy play an energetic, questionable shady dude again.
And, best of all, it was cool as hell to see Charlize Theron playing an action lead again, and just straight-up kicking everybody's a** throughout the entire film, especially since she did a lot of the fight scenes herself (she got in a lot of actual martial arts training for the film.) Her character also takes a hell of a lot of beating herself---it's made very clear that she's not invincible and that she has to use a hell of a lot of her own ingenuity and quick-thinking skills to get herself out of some very dangerous situations. ATOMIC BLONDE's nothing like a Bourne film----no ridiculous cross-cutting in the fight scenes----you see two or three or more people fight in the entire scene straight on and close-up,like in Hong Kong films (like when Lorraine grabs almost anything she can get her hands on to use as a weapon----busting a thug upside the head with a hot plate she snatches up at the last minute---that was a trip to see.) Basically this is a film for adults, not tweens or whiny teens waiting for the next explosion (there are a couple in this film,though.) Loved the European locations, which looked great.
Agreed, it was great, and badass. Amazing cinematography in that stairwell/street fight, some very nicely hidden cuts that make it look like about 10 to 15 minutes of uninterrupted footage. I could see how someone might not be interested in this cup of tea, but it's nowhere near "bad."
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