79%Tomatometer 366 Reviews 64%Audience Score 25,000+ Ratings Sensual and savage, Lorraine Broughton is the most elite spy in MI6, an agent who's willing to use all of her lethal skills to stay alive during an impossible mission. With the Berlin Wall about to fall, she travels into the heart of the city to retrieve a priceless dossier and take down a ruthless espionage ring. Once there, she teams up with an embedded station chief to navigate her way through the deadliest game of spies. Read MoreRead LessWatch on Fandango at Home Buy Now
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Atomic Blonde gets enough mileage out of its stylish action sequences -- and ever-magnetic star -- to make up for a narrative that's somewhat less hard-hitting than its protagonist.
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Kambole Campbell One Room With A View A good time - saved by spectacular fight scenes, a colourful cast of supporting characters, and a great lead in Theron. Rated: 3/5 Aug 25, 2018 Full Review Ryan Gilbey New Statesman Even an actor as good as Theron can't turn a set of cynical commercial considerations into a character. Aug 17, 2017 Full Review Donald Clarke Irish Times Charlize Theron works furiously to bring some small weight to a character so feathery she barely manages to remain attached to the screen. Rated: 2/5 Aug 15, 2017 Full Review Akhil Arora AkhilArora.com The fight on the staircase, a single take that lasts several minutes, is a particular highlight. It draws humour from the violence, too, and James McAvoy is having a ball as an unhinged operative. May 11, 2024 Full Review Don Shanahan Every Movie Has a Lesson Leitch’s film lacks zip, zilch, and zero in the style department. Rated: 3/5 Aug 14, 2022 Full Review Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review The talented cast and formal technique feel trampled by the overstylized and undermotivated narrative. Rated: 2/4 Mar 23, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews
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Korra N Bone-crunching action, great acting and sleek direction keep Atomic Blonde's fairly pedestrian script from weighing the film down, doubling down on its Cold War-set atmosphere and aesthetic with some tragic character beats. Not to mention, an absolutely killer soundtrack! Rated 4/5 Stars •Rated 4 out of 5 stars07/08/24 Full Review Andrew A Set during the end of the Cold War, ‘Atomic Blonde’ is one of the most creative films to come out of the 2010’s. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars06/20/24 Full Review Danny H This movie pretends to be more complex than it really is. This is achieved through fast talking and mumbling, but the reality is it's a pretty basic movie.TBH I think Charlize Theron was not the right choice for this role. She always looked like she was struggling. James McAvoy steals every scene and even Sofia Boutella seems to fit more comfortably in here character. Rated 2/5 Stars •Rated 2 out of 5 stars06/11/24 Full Review Matt S Absolutely loved this movie! The choreography and the camera shots of the fight scenes was done to perfection. The 2 leads are very interesting characters with superb acting! The only negative thing I can say about this movie is that even though the fight scenes were amazing, the characters would suffer an unrealistic amount of beating and be able to continue fighting. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars06/10/24 Full Review Thomas P if it wasn't for the boring ass "who can I trust" spy story, this could've been really cool Rated 2.5/5 Stars •Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars06/03/24 Full Review Yuri B It was pretty awesome... really gritty & surreal... Theron & McAvoy were cool as hell in their respective roles. Rated 4/5 Stars •Rated 4 out of 5 stars05/19/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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David Leitch Director Charlize Theron Lorraine Broughton James McAvoy David Percival Eddie Marsan Spyglass John Goodman Emmett Kurzfeld Toby Jones Eric Gray
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SynopsisSensual and savage, Lorraine Broughton is the most elite spy in MI6, an agent who's willing to use all of her lethal skills to stay alive during an impossible mission. With the Berlin Wall about to fall, she travels into the heart of the city to retrieve a priceless dossier and take down a ruthless espionage ring. Once there, she teams up with an embedded station chief to navigate her way through the deadliest game of spies.
Director
David Leitch
Producer
Charlize Theron, A.J. Dix, Beth Kono, Peter Schwerin, Eric Gitter, Kelly McCormick
Screenwriter
Kurt Johnstad
Distributor
Focus Features
Production Co
Denver and Delilah Productions, 87eleven
Rating
R (Sequences of Strong Violence|Language Throughout|Some Sexuality/Nudity)
Lorraine kills his henchmen. Speaking with an American accent, she tells Bremovych she always fed him misinformation to manipulate the KGB, and kills him. She and Kurzfeld return to America with The List.
While Atomic Blonde was a theatrical release, Atomic Blonde 2 has been slated as a Netflix project since 2020, which is fitting since Charlize Theron has worked with the streamer on The Old Guard, The School for Good and Evil and the upcoming The Old Guard 2 (which still doesn't have a release date).
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But more than simply being a woman, Lorraine is, at least in this iteration of her story, a queer woman. Throughout the film her bisexuality is heavily implied, and she has relations with an innocently charming French spy named Delphine (Sophia Boutella).
Lorraine kills his henchmen, and before killing him reveals she was manipulating events from the very beginning. Later in Paris she meets with Kurzfeld, revealing herself to be an American triple agent planted by the CIA, before returning with him to Langley.
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David Leitch served as producer in the first two John Wick movies and an uncredited co-director on the first movie. Given their similar themes and styles, particularly in their action scenes, Atomic Blonde was compared to John Wick, and it served as the perfect female foil to Reeves' character.
Charlize Theron's action movie Atomic Blonde largely filmed Budapest as 1980s Germany and built a fake Berlin Wall in the city. The movie is set in Berlin in 1989 - the year the Wall finally came down - and follows Charlize Theron's MI5 spy as she clashes with hostile local forces on a mission.
The final thing we see is Broughton boarding a plane bound for CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, with a leading intelligence operative, Emmett Kurzfeld (John Goodman), and at last handing over the list to him. He tells her it's time to go home, and she says that sounds like a great idea.
Yes, Atomic Blonde is a female-led action movie, but that doesn't make it a beacon of equality and inclusivity if the female representation consists of one white woman, and one woman of Algerian-French descent, adrift in a sea of white testosterone.
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