With John Wick, David Leitch and Chad Stahelski have dated Keanu Reeves one of the coolest action heroes of the last decade made. Without his directing partner, Leitch released Atomic Blonde in 2017, which also turns Mad Max: Fury Road star Charlize Theron into an action goddess.
If you don’t know the film yet or want to watch it again, you have the opportunity to do so tonight on ZDF. Atomic Blonde is worth going through star-studded cast and the retro feel of a Berlin shortly before the fall of the Wall. The highlight, however, is the action with a particularly intense sequence.
Atomic Blonde ignites a firework of espionage action during the Cold War
The action of the film takes place in the fall of 1989. At the height of the Cold War between the USA and the Soviet Union, MI6 agent Lorraine Broughton (Charlize Theron) is sent to the German capital to investigate the Murdering another undercover agent uncover. She is also supposed to secure an important document containing the identities of all double agents from East and West Berlin.
Check out a trailer for Atomic Blonde here:
Atomic Blonde – Trailer 2 (German) HD
Leitch’s film is particularly fascinating because of its idiosyncratic vision of Berlin. The director continually transforms the capital into a city through dirty, drab sets by day and vibrant neon lights by night exaggerated pop art spectacle. Almost every Neue Deutsche Welle hit from back then can be heard on the side.
Charlize Theron plays her main character as a withdrawn, focused spy who is as lascivious as seductress as she is in moments of physical confrontation unleashed fighting machine mutated. With screaming, groaning strains, she kills advancing opponents, if necessary, to the point of final exhaustion.
In the action film’s climax, Lorraine fights in a a good 10-minute plan sequence with no visible cuts through stairwells and apartments of a building, after which the spy and her protection flee in a car to continue the chase through the traffic.
© Studio Canal
The passage in which Lorraine and her adversary as silhouettes in front of a screen collide, onto which Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker is projected at the same time. Action and art cannot be merged better.
Atomic Blonde is on ZDF today at 11:00 p.m.
*These links are so-called affiliate links. If you make a purchase through these links or subscribe, we will receive a commission. This has no effect on the price.
What do you think of Atomic Blonde?