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.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.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.
- Awards
- 14 wins & 20 nominations
- Aleksander Bremovych
- (as Roland Moller)
- Yuri Bakhtin
- (as Jóhannes Jóhannesson)
- East German Guard #1
- (as Attila Arpa)
- Helena
- (as Lili Gessler)
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- TriviaCharlize Theron had eight personal trainers to help her master her intensely physical performance. She also trained with Keanu Reeves, who was preparing for John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017).
- GoofsWhile acting as Lorraine's tour guide, David points out Brandenburg Gate and then Checkpoint Charlie. The only way to pass the Gate first and the Checkpoint second with them to the right was to drive in East Berlin, and not West Berlin where the characters are supposedly driving.
- Quotes
Lorraine Broughton: I've read your file. I've also read your dog file. So let's cut the crap, shall we? This whole hungover, show-up-late, don't-know-which-way-is-up act, I'm not buying it. I trust you about as far as I can throw you.
David Percival: "It's a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver."
Lorraine Broughton: Niccolo Machiavelli. It was on your shelf.
David Percival: Oh my God, I think I fucking love you!
Lorraine Broughton: That's too bad.
- Crazy creditsThere is a credit for "Best Camera Trainee Ever."
- Alternate versionsThe lesbian scenes were cut from the Arab version release.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Atomic Blonde: Fight Like a Girl (2017)
- SoundtracksBlue Monday '88
Written by Stephen Morris (as Stephen Paul David Morris), Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Gillian Gilbert (as Gillian Lesley Gilbert)
Performed by New Order
Courtesy of Warner Music U.K. Ltd.
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What this is, of course, is an adaptation of a graphic novel, "The Coldest City". The title "Atomic Blonde" is rather campy, though it suggests the nuclear threat that was on everyone's mind at the time.
Reality, also of course, need not apply here. I agree with those who say that this is the answer to the call for a female James Bond. This probably better than the Broccoli people would do it. It is amusing that people - including me - pair this movie with "Red Sparrow" because the latter movie is actually more realistic than this one in its use of a female spy who uses sex first and violence sparingly because she knows she can't sustain a physical fight with ten men (or even one powerful man) without a gun or at least sharp objects.
Charleze Theron is a kick-butt fantasy. She can do anything physical that she has to. Not only fending off multiple male attackers but jumping off of balconies with makeshift ropes and pulleys and counterweights made out of bad guys.
I liked the twists in the plot and the surprise ending. It is part of the fun.
Loraine Broughton navigates a world where she quickly realizes that everybody is out to betray everybody else, and somebody has decided to have everybody gang up on her. Does she whine about it? Only a little. Mostly she just deals with it by shooting or kicking somebody in the head.
The spycraft is a bit contrived not to say outright laughable. Somebody does not understand that the purpose of a code name is to obscure the person or thing the spies are talking about. So "Spyglass" is a very bad code name for a spy or asset. And "the list" is a very bad code name for a maguffin that is, in fact, a list. (I recently read a spy novel by a real life spy in which an operative's code name is "Tulip". See the difference?)
My pet peeves with some critics are that 1) The present generation did not invent feminism. That is not necessarily a thing that is anachronistic about this movie. In the 1980s, women were already making headway into previously male-dominated professions. 2) This movie was not an ad for tobacco but a reflection of how much a lot of people still smoked in the '80s.
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- Dec 1, 2018
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- Also known as
- The Coldest City
- Filming locations
- Budapest, Hungary(as Berlin, Germany, main shooting location)
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Box office
- Budget
- $30,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $51,687,870
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $18,286,420
- Jul 30, 2017
- Gross worldwide
- $100,014,025
- Runtime1 hour 55 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1