Charlize Theron absolutely dominates in this movie, a stylish, über-violent spy thriller cut from the John Wick cloth. She's brutal, impossibly cool, and she just decimates the thugs standing in her way (wearing the physical abuse like a badge of honor).
"Atomic Blonde" thrives on the fashion, neon and action scenes, not so much on the actual spycraft. Things tend to drag during the debrief scenes, and the song just feels like an excuse for the litany of licensed music.
But that's almost irrelevant because it's really about her; and man, does she deliver. We're all here for the jaw-dropping stairwell fight and it does not disappoint.
Like, at all.
"Atomic Blonde" thrives on the fashion, neon and action scenes, not so much on the actual spycraft. Things tend to drag during the debrief scenes, and the song just feels like an excuse for the litany of licensed music.
But that's almost irrelevant because it's really about her; and man, does she deliver. We're all here for the jaw-dropping stairwell fight and it does not disappoint.
Like, at all.