With John Wick, David Leitch and Chad Stahelski from Keanu Reeves have One of the coolest action heroes in the past decade made. Without his directorial partner, Leitch then published Atomic Blonde in 2017, who also transformed Mad Max: Fury Road Star Charlize Theron into an action goddess.
VOX radiates the crack on Thursday on TV. It is worth it through the star cast and the retro feeling of a Berlin shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall. The highlight is the action with a particularly intensive sequence.
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The plot of the film takes place in autumn 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 Murder of another undercover agent to uncover. It is also intended to ensure an important document that contains the identities of all double agents: inside from East and West Berlin.
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Bench’s film is fascinating primarily through its idiosyncratic Berlin vision. The director turns the capital into an oversubscribed pop art spectacle through dirty, dreary backdrops during the day and pulsating neon lights. Almost every new German Welle hit from back then can be heard.
Charlize Theron plays her main character as a locked, concentrated spy, who appears as a lascivious seducer as she is in moments of physical confrontation unleashed fighting machine mutated. Under screaming, groaning strains, she kills advancing opponents: on the inside, if necessary, until the final exhaustion.
In the climax of the action film, Lorraine fights in one a good 10-minute plan sequence without visible cuts Through stairwells and apartments of a building, according to which the spy and her protective person flee to a car to continue the chase through road traffic.
The passage in which Lorraine and its adversary as silhouettes collide against a canvas on which Andrei Tarkowski’s stalker is projected as silent and their adversary. Action and art cannot be fused better.
When does atomic blonde run on TV?
VOX shines the action fireworks on February 20, 2025 at 10:50 p.m. out of. If you don’t have time, you can alternatively stream atomic blonde in the subscription flat.
This article was first published on Moviepilot in May 2022.