By Emilio Frenk.
Director: David Leitch
Cast: Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, Eddie Marsan, Toby Jones, James Faulkner, Sofia Boutella, Bill Skarsgard, Sam Hargrave, Roland Moller, Til Schweiger and John Goodman.
Rating: Excellent.
David Leitch, director of “John Wick”, brings “Atomic Blonde” an action/thriller movie that I was blown away from the minute it started to the end.
Based on the graphic novel “The Coldest City” by Anthony Johnston the movie takes place in 1989 during the collapse of The Berlin Wall and tells the story of Lorraine Broughton (Charlize Theron) an undercover MI6 agent that is sent to Berlin to investigate the murder of agent and boyfriend James Gascoine (Sam Hargrave).
Besides of the murder investigation, Lorraine has to recover a list that has the names of missing agents. She will do this with the help of Agent David Percival (James McAvoy).
The problem escalates when Russian Assassins want the list so they can sell it. Now both Lorraine Broughton and David Percival will be in a race against time to get the list and deliver it to the British Authorities.
One of the things that I enjoyed of “Atomic Blonde” were the filmmaking and the action sequences that are very similar to the first “John Wick” film released in 2014.
The screenplay written also by Kurt Johnstad was written with a lot of detail and I liked the fact that this movie took place in an event like The Berlin Wall in the late eighties.
The only problem that I saw in terms of screenplay was that it needed more character development and the motivations for their goals there were not that established. There is one dream sequence that explains more about the conflict of Theron´s character but I was not convinced with that tool and it should have been established in another way. Other than that I believe the movie works, but still I think the movie in terms of story needed more work.
The cinematography, editing and the score were fantastic and other factors that I loved of “Atomic Blonde” is the way how Charlize Theron brought to life such an interesting character.
The performance of Theron was convincing at all levels and I didn´t see another actress portraying this role.
The stunts and fight sequences of this film were impressive, specially the one that takes place in an apartment in Berlin that reminded me to “The Bourne” saga due to the intensity of the sequences that were in those films.
The score is really good and for 80´s lovers I think is a soundtrack you will want to have in your setlist.
Charlize Theron is really good in this movie and she kicks real ass in every single moment that happens in this film.
James McAvoy´s character is really interesting and once again brought to life a very complex character that has one big twist during the second act of the film.
This is indeed the action movie of the summer and is really a joy to see this kind of movies that not only have very good actions sequences but in storytelling have very good characters, although like I mentioned they could have been better developed but still the movie works.
With that being said “Atomic Blonde” is one of the best movies of the summer and I highly recommend it for the filmmaking of the film and you are not going to be disappointed with this film.