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What I got was . Atomic Blonde takes place during the weeks before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a world- changing event that presaged the collapse of the old Soviet Empire and the swift relocation of its capital from Moscow to San Francisco. A Stasi double agent code- named “Spyglass” (maybe the code name “Double Agent” was taken) wants to defect to the West with a list of espionage agents, counter- agents, double agents, triple agents and real estate agents, and all the dirty deeds that they’d done dirt cheap. It’s such an intel bonanza that everybody wants The List bad enough to kill for it. Many times over. Which they certainly do. Missing microfilm is a tired spy movie trope that never seems to go out of style even though it should.

On the Mac. Guffin scale, The List is left in the dust by Rosebud, the Maltese Falcon and whatever shiny thing Marcellus Wallace stuck in that briefcase. When a British spy named James Gasciogne becomes the first in a long line of agents killed for The List, Her Majesty’s Secret Service dispatches MI6 Deluxe Super- Agent Extraordinaire Lorraine Broughton (Charlize Theron) to a divided Berlin to bring home the dead agent’s body and The List (not necessarily in that order) and to expose a traitor in Berlin code- named “Satchel.”Broughton is tall, lanky, brilliant, expert in hand- to- hand combat and firearms, hits from both sides of the plate and so blonde that the audience needs shades. Upon landing in Berlin, Broughton is immediately picked up by the KGB, possibly for the capital crime of impersonating a fashion model. Extreme violence ensues, making it clear to the audience, popcorn vendors and solicitors for The Will Rogers Home for Unwed Actors that The List is very important, Satchel is a sneaky bastard, the body count is going to be monumental and Agent Gasciogne is going to be ripening on that Berlin slab for a long time before his body gets shipped back to Blighty. All issues will be resolved in the closing scenes, but until then there will be double- crosses, triple crosses, quadruple crosses, right crosses, Iron Crosses – this plot has more crosses than Forest Lawn, and almost as many bodies.

Speaking of right crosses and bodies, this movie features . The fights are among the most intense and vicious on film, with the tall skinny star doling out a lot of the physical punishment while withstanding heavy blows that would kill a Lipizzaner. Compared to the soon- to- be- famous stairway battle in “Atomic Blonde,” the blistering, life and death sleeping- car brawl in “From Russia With Love” between Sean Connery and Robert Shaw now seems like a giggling wrestling match between lovestruck English public school boys. The only way to make these scenes more violent would be to actually bump off a few actors on camera, an idea that’s likely percolating among Hollywood big shots right now. In some of the fights, speeding cars, hands and feet reign supreme, supplemented however by knives, sticks, stiletto heels, articles of home d. John Wick fans have seen the shots before, many times over.

A bad guy takes one to the dome, turning his coconut into Old Faithful and spattering the walls with red, red vino, brain matter and a few spritzes of Ronco GLH- 9 hair- in- a- can. Call it “the Wickochet Shot” if you will, but whatever part of the budget for “Atomic Blonde” that didn’t go toward peroxide for Theron’s coiffure was spent on buckets of Red Dye #2 for the walls. David Leitch, the former stunt double who helmed “Atomic Blonde,” was also the uncredited co- director of “John Wick,” so nothing less than a plethora of exploding heads was expected. Moreover, to prepare for “Atomic Blonde,” Theron trained with Keanu Reeves (her former co- star in “The Devil’s Advocate”), who was tuning up his death- dealing skills as he practiced for “John Wick Chapter 2.” For the most part, Theron’s physical and gun training seems to have paid off, although she did perform more needless press checks than a Secret Service guard after a Presidential news conference.

Speaking of fights, it’s a good thing that the U. S. Stab them, choke them, run them over, crack their heads, shoot them, kick them squarely in the Hodensack, it doesn’t matter. Even with car keys embedded in their cheeks, you can’t stop them, you can only hope to contain them. And they come back over and over and over, like Jason on the first day of summer camp. But just to prove that’s it’s not only about the violence, “Atomic Blonde” also features .

Now we’re talking the stuff of Hollywood legend. Between acts of bloody wet work, English Agent Broughton and French Agent Delphine Lasalle (Sofia Boutella) manage to sneak away for some steamy wet work, just to relieve stress and pump up ticket sales. Whether these scenes are a feature or an embarrassment is up to the viewer, but it’s worth noting for the record that despite appearing together in ten movies, six novels and at least one video game, James Bond and Felix Leiter never bumped uglies. Not together anyway. Still, Boutella’s smoky sensuality can’t be ignored, nor can the fact that, at age 4. Theron looks her best while fully clothed.

Speaking of being fully clothed, what seems to make the most impact isn’t the sex or violence, it’s . The well- dressed Theron dominates every scene, due in no small measure to the fact that she’s at least 6’2” in that wild footwear and taller than most of the cast. Download Sleepless (2017) For Free. People of a certain age who lived through the Cold War remember it as a frightening time for some, with Berlin as one of several hot spots voted most likely to turn the cold war hot.

The music selected for this film reflects the fear and paranoia of the time, and each tune is well placed to advance the story and make people of a certain age all dewy with nostalgia. Viewers who . Viewers who do not remember the collapse of the Soviet Union should would be better served by watching “Baby Driver” or “Despicable Me 3.”A listener may be excused for believing that yesterday’s music was better than today’s. Okay, so “9. 9 Red Balloons” isn’t “9. Problems,” but the older number is still an evocative and tuneful little ditty in German. And besides, “Ich habe 9. Probleme, aber eine H. In any case, the sound track and costumery is better than this film’s .

Trying to affect a jaded, Harry Palmer- ish (see “Funeral in Berlin”) cynicism, she often just seems bored, even while dallying with Sofia Boutella — which is a trick that most men could not manage even after a bellyful of Buffalo Trace. Surprisingly, though, Theron hits all the right, high- energy notes during her fight scenes, although she was obviously doubled in many shots. The thought that she could physically match the burly Germans and Russians who are trying unsuccessfully to kick her bony ass is, in a word, absurd. Nevertheless, if any movie needs a skinny female superhero to beat up hulking professional assassins who are built like refrigerators, Theron would be as solid a choice as anyone (with the possible exception of the even- scrawnier Angelina Jolie). James Mc. Avoy is miscast as David Percival, MI6’s Berlin section chief, and the part is cartoonishly miswritten. Mc. Avoy’s Percival is a manic, smirking, drug using, whoring, intense and obvious loose cannon who acts like a nut and dresses like a schlemiel. Is that really the kind of person that the Brits would leave in charge of the most important espionage post in Europe, and maybe the world?

No, MI6 would have an Oxford grad who would be intense but subtle, sophisticated, oily and treacherous. It also hurts that Theron at 5’1. Mc. Avoy, to the point where she wears heels in most scenes except when onscreen with him, when she wears flats so that Mc. Avoy didn’t have to wear stilts. As for John Goodman, all anyone can say is: trim that beard, man.