CAN SHE DO THAT?
Film Review by Fiore

The movie is shown in
flashback. A battered and bruised Lorraine is brought before a clandestine tribunal to account for a
botched assignment. It is 1989, and
President Ronald Reagan is urging Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the wall dividing Berlin. As the wall crumbles, a list of top espionage
operatives across the globe is purloined by a rogue KGB agent, and placed on the
market to the highest bidder. Lorraine is tasked with finding and securing the list for
MI-6. Her contact in Berlin is David Percival, played by McAvoy.
Neither of the agents trust the other and the uneasy relationship
complicates the mission.
Starring with Theron and
McAvoy are: John Goodman as Emmett Kurzfeld, a CIA department head; Eddie Marsan as Spyglass, a key element in the delivery of the list; and Sofia Boutella as Delphine Lasalle, a French
intelligence agent. Sofia was most recently seen as Ahmanet, in
Tom Cruise’s THE MUMMY.
1.1 KEY SCENES TO LOOK FOR:
1.
SAVING EDDIE
MARSEN
2.
RUSSIAN SUITE
3.
THE SEDUCTION
Editor Elisabet Ronaldsdottir does a credible job in keeping ATOMIC BLONDE under two
hours. There is, however, still a hole
in Act Two which drags to the point of making the movie seem longer than it
is. There is a lesbian love affair
between Lorraine and Delphine which serves no
purpose, other than to keep the male audience interested. It’s pretty hot stuff, but definitely not
necessary to the plot.
Jonathan Sela heads the
camera crew. He worked on JOHN WICK, so
many of the action sequences carry a familiar appearance. In fact, a plethora of the technical crew
worked on the JOHN WICK film, so many of the battles, including the gun fights,
will look recognizable.

Let’s take a look at the
report card for ATOMIC BLONDE
1.2 ACTING = B
1.3 CINEMATOGRAPHY = B
1.4 SOUND/MUSIC = A
1.5 EDITING = C
1.6 LIGHTING = C
1.7 SCRIPT = D
1.8 SFX = B
1.9
ACTION = B
ATOMIC BLONDE offers a great
sound track, with the possible exception of the insipid "99 Red Luftballoons"
tune. A movie hasn’t opened with David Bowie’s “Putting Out
Fire” since Natasha Kinski’s
version of CAT PEOPLE.

If you can let the ridiculous
fight scenes slide, ATOMIC BLONDE is not a bad action flick. It is easier to believe a woman can knock out
a man twice her size with a sink, than with a front kick. Even Cynthia Rothrock never did that. The film is rated R, and contains extensive violence,
sex, nudity and language only a drunken sailor should use, so please, keep the
kiddies at home. Ladies, I think you’ll
like this one. Guys, if you have to sit
through a chick flick, better this than anything by Nicholas Sparks.
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