![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Most notable is the blitzkrieg of an action climax, a 10-minute “single shot” as ambitious as anything in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men, which sees Lorraine crunch and batter her way in and back out of a dank East Berlin tenement, using guns, feet, fists, a two-ring hotplate, a corkscrew and a car to dispatch the Soviet agents on her tail. But it’s in the action that Leitch, formerly a stunt co-ordinator and second unit director, shines. The soundtrack is a largely credible mix tape of 80s pop-rock featuring New Order, Depeche Mode, Siouxsie and the Banshees and, perhaps inevitably, Nena’s 99 Luftballons. There she butts heads with fellow agent David Percival (James McAvoy, skeevy-sexy, accessorised with beer sweats and casual treachery) and has a fling with rookie French spy Delphine (Sofia Boutella, lots of smouldering in fishnet body stockings).įirst time director David Leitch favours a sleazy, neon aesthetic that looks like an X-rated, ultraviolent knock-off of a Duran Duran video. And MI5 asset Lorraine Broughton (Theron, looking like Debbie Harry dipped in venom) is flown in to clear up the mess. A British agent has been murdered a valuable list is missing. It is the first solo directorial effort from David Leitch, one of the co-directors of John Wick. The setting is Berlin just before the fall of the Wall the paranoid hangover of the cold war is giving way to a new era of hungry opportunism. Atomic Blonde is a 2017 action / spy thriller film starring Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, Sofia Boutella, Toby Jones, Bill Skarsgrd, Eddie Marsan, John Goodman and Til Schweiger, based on the 2012 graphic novel The Coldest City by Antony Johnston. Bullet Train is directed by David Leitch, of Atomic Blonde and Deadpool 2, who began his career as a stuntman and even worked as a double for Pitt in Fight. Having stolen Mad Max: Fury Road from Tom Hardy one-handed (literally), she is relentlessly, murderously brilliant in this adaptation of Antony Johnston’s graphic novel The Coldest City. ADVERT ADVERT Elsewhere, there are plans for a female-first entry called Ballerina and even rumours of a possible crossover with Leitchs Atomic Blonde. I can’t think of any actor more deserving of their own pulpy action franchise than Charlize Theron. ![]()
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