Jeri Jacquin
Coming to theatres this Friday with a kick and a bang from
director David Leitch and Focus Features is the ATOMIC BLONDE.
It is Berlin and the Cold
War as Lorraine
(Charlize Theron), a British agent with MI6 and a mean set of skills.
Interrogated by Gray (Toby Jones) and Chief C (James Faulkner), they want to
know about the mission to retrieve information stolen from another agent.
It is a list of top secret information that can hurt agents
everywhere hidden in a watch. Landing in Berlin ,
Lorraine Lorraine begins to poke
around given bits and pieces by Percival.
One thing she learns is that there is someone named Spyglass
(Eddie Marsan) who has memorized the information. That brings more curiosity to
Lorraine and
she wants to know what other secrets everyone is keeping from her. Meeting
Delphine (Sofia Boutella) might be the key to so very much more.
It is a game of cat and mouse with a high body count when
dealing with an ATOMIC BLONDE!
Theron as Lorraine
is not anyone I’d ever mess with. Focused, strong, smart and highly aware of
her surroundings, she takes a beating but gives just as much in return. Theron
doesn’t need tons of dialogue to get the job done. Her eyes and face are
expressive until they are not. I love seeing her tear up the screen, not just
physically but her intense presence.
McAvoy gets the chance to be sleazy once again. Trying to
fit into the scene of Berlin
he buys information with Jack Daniels and Jordache jeans (if you don’t know
that name kids, ask your grandparents). McAvoy gives the slick chain-smoking
character the right amount of angry charm that I enjoyed watching. He’s getting
good at being bad!
Jones as Gray wants to know every detail of what happened to
the mission yet doesn’t seem shocked at the answers. Goodman as Emmett gets the
suspicion of Lorraine
from the moment he steps into the room yet there is more to it than just being
American.
Marsan as Spyglass is a timid man who knows a little too
much about everything and uses it to try and save his family. Boutella as
Delphine is the mysterious woman who captures Lorraine ’s attention as she watches the
chess pieces move all around the board.
Other cast includes Roland Moller as Alekander Bremovych,
Bill Skarsgard as Merkel, Sam Hargrave as James Gasciogne, Johannes Johansson
as Yuri Bakhtin, Tig Schweiger as the Watchmaker and John Goodman as Emmett.
TUBS OF POPCORN: I give ATOMIC BLONDE four and a half tubs
of popcorn out of five. Why? Simply put it’s a heck of a lot of fun to watch,
the soundtrack is smokin’, the cinematography is fantastic and the action is
none stop from start to finish. It truly is the reason we go to the movies!
The story isn’t geared toward any one demographic as it
plays to its strengths and not the political correctness of it all. There just
isn’t anything about ATOMIC BLONDE that I didn’t like. Theron is absolutely
beautiful and coming off of THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS where she is a real bad
gal, in ATOMIC BLONDE she is another type of real bad gal and this one I’d want
on my side.
The soundtrack includes a few awesome songs such as 99 Luftballons performed by Nena
(remember that video?), Father Figure
by George Michaels, Der Kommissar by
After the Fire, The Politics of Dancing
by Re-Flex, Voices Carry by Til
Tuesday, I Ran by Flock of Seagulls
and Under Pressure by Queen and David
Bowie. I spent a lot of time lip-synching while watching Theron drop kick a few
bad guys!
ATOMIC BLONDE is taken from the Oni Press graphic novel
series The Coldest City by Antony
Johnston who also authored Wasteland.
In the end – she’s about to go atomic on summer!
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