Atomic Blonde [Review]

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[Bender2]

An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.

[wardaddy]

More stupid fantasy that women will beat your skinny effete male ass

Tailor made for male millenials who let mommy or ovarian superior keep their testicles in the same garbage can she keeps her used tampons in

[fr_freak]

Here’s my review:

This would have been an ok spy/action thriller if the role played by Theron was a man instead of a skinny girl. Even the sex scenes, for Pete’s sake (Theron has sex with a woman, for those of you who haven’t seen it).

In fact, it is as if the makers of this movie had a decent script with a man as the lead, but said “You know what would make this great? A woman in the lead! How progressive!”

Regardless of what kind of fantasy-land beliefs you may have about women in combat, one of the reasons women are more vulnerable than men is because they can’t tolerate as much punishment as men. Theron’s character repeatedly takes blows to the head that would have killed her in real life, but she just looks more angry.

[Sequoyah101]

This kind of bullspit has set up a cult of unrealistic expectations.

Stupid unrealistic expectations. Things like women in combat.

[Impy]

I had little expectations for this but the trailer looked pretty good.

I don’t know the source material but I heard this is as close to a chick James Bond as we’re gonna get (unless those idiots actually make a James Bond a chick).

[Captain Peter Blood]

I saw “Atomic Blonde” and liked it. I do agree the strong female being able to take out the big bad guys stretches the imagination. That seems to be trend in action and spy movies with female leads these days.

Charlize Theron would be perfect to reboot the “Modesty Blaise” series.

“Modesty Blaise” was a action/spy film from 1966 based on a comic strip and series of books by Peter O’Donnell. At one time the comic strip was in hundreds of papers worldwide.

Modesty was woman who started out as a criminal and ended up running the biggest criminal empire in Europe with her sidekick and lethal enforcer, Willie Garvin. Later Modesty semi-retires and due to some relationship with the head of MI6, helps them out from time to time.

This would be the perfect vehicle for someone like Theron to be in. Would have to find someone to play Willie Garvin.

For those of you from the Baby Boomer era Modesty was played by Italian Actress Monica Vitti, here is the link:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060708/?ref_=nv_sr_1