2017 - ATOMIC BLONDE - a violent spy/action caper

Sort of a violent remake of Funeral In Berlin except this time Harry Palmer is an ass kicking female spy/assassin called Lorraine Broughton.  There are lots of shootings and beatings for the action fan to enjoy.  The film also throws in some exploitative lesbian stuff for the titillation of the male audience.

 Charlize Theron joins the ranks of other women who are carving our pieces of the traditionally male dominated action genre.  She's in there kicking and shooting and punching with the best of them in the great tradition of Linda Hamilton and Angelina Joli.

 

 

The film has a rather subdued color scheme to it as if the production wanted to emphasize the chilly nature of the location and the violence.  The film was directed by a 2nd unit and stunt coordinator named David Leitch who certainly knows how to arrange a scene for maximum violent bone crunching content.

Is this film any good? Beats me, but it did keep me awake.  The plot is one of those complicated spy vs spy things but I basically lost track of who was doing what to whom after about 45 minutes.

 

The writer was Kurt Johnstad who did the screenplay for the equally violent 300.  The film is on the longish side, running about 115 minutes.