Atomic Blonde [Includes Digital Copy] [Blu-ray/DVD]

Director: David Leitch David Leitch

Overview

In this spy thriller set in 1989 Berlin, MI6 agent Lorraine Broughton (Charlize Theron) must obtain a stolen list of Western spies while the city around her descends into chaos and revolution. Working with local station chief David Percival (James McAvoy), her pursuit leads her to uncover a much larger conspiracy. Toby Jones, John Goodman, Sofia Boutella, and Eddie Marsan co-star. Directed by David Leitch, Atomic Blonde is based on the graphic novel The Coldest City by Antony Johnston and Sam Hart.

Product Details

Release Date:	11/14/2017
UPC:	0025192396854
Original Release:	2017
Rating:	R
Source:	STUDIO DISTRIBUTION SERVS LLC
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Digital Theater Systems, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:54:00
Sales rank:	21,985

Special Features

Deleted/Extended Scenes; Welcome to Berlin; Blondes Have More Gun; Spymaster; Anatomy of a Fight Scene; Story in Motion with Commentary by Director David Leitch; Feature Commentary with Director David Leitch and Editor Elisabet Ronaldsdottir

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Charlize Theron	Lorraine Broughton
James McAvoy	David Percival
John Goodman	CIA Agent
Til Schweiger	Watchmaker
Eddie Marsan	Spyglass
Sofia Boutella	Delphine
Toby Jones	Gray
James Faulkner	C
Roland Møller	Beckmentov
Bill Skarsgård	Merkel
Barbara Sukowa	Coroner
Attila Arpa	East German Guard #1
Martin Angerbauer	East German Guard #2
Lili Gessler	Helena
Sara Natasa Szonda	Audrey
Declan Hannigan	Driver
Balazs Lengyel	Gentleman
Daniel Hargrave	Sniper,Actor
Greg Rementer	Spotter
Daniel Bernhardt	Soldier
Cale Schultz	Boris
Johannes Haukur Johannesson	Yuri Bakhtin
Lili Gesler	Helena
Árpa Attila	la garde est-allemande #1
Balázs Veres	le manifestant de Berlin
Roland Moller	Actor
Bill Skarsgard	Actor
Tyler Bates	Composer

Technical Credits

Kurt Johnstad

Antony Johnston

David Leitch	Director
Kurt Johnstad	Screenwriter,Executive Producer
Eric Gitter	Producer
A.J. Dix	Producer
Charlize Theron	Producer
Peter Schwerin	Producer
Beth Kono	Producer
Kelly McCormick	Producer
Ethan Smith	Executive Producer,Producer
Steven V. Scavelli	Executive Producer,Producer
Joe Nozemack	Executive Producer,Producer
Nick Meyer	Executive Producer,Producer
David Guillod	Executive Producer,Producer
Marc Schaberg	Executive Producer,Producer
Jonas Jansson	Sound/Sound Designer
Mark Stoeckinger	Sound/Sound Designer
Marisol Roncali	Casting
Mary Vernieu	Casting
Monika Nagy	Production Manager
Ed Cantu	Sound Mixer
Alan Rankin	Sound Editor
Florian Hotz	Stunts
Gabor Kiszelly	Special Effects Supervisor
Uli Nefzer	Special Effects Supervisor
Antony Johnston	Screenwriter
Daniel Bernhardt	Stunts
Mattias Eklund	Sound Effects
Thomas Huhn	Sound Effects
Daniel Hargrave	Stunts
Gergö Horpácsi	Stunts
Balazs Lengyel	Stunts
Greg Rementer	Stunts
Cale Schultz	Stunts
Norbert Kovács	Stunts
Béla Orsányi	Stunts

Editorial Reviews

Call it Atomic Bond. Charlize Theron stars as MI6 agent Lorraine Broughton in director David Leitch's high-velocity spy thriller, which is set in 1989 Berlin during the waning days of the Cold War. When we first meet Broughton, she's badly bruised from head to toe and on her way to be debriefed by her humorless boss (Toby Jones) and a stuffy CIA chief (John Goodman). They want to know how her most recent mission, the attempted retrieval of a missing, ultra-top-secret list containing the names of every Western agent working on both sides of the Berlin Wall, went horribly awry. As she makes her way to the meeting -- stylishly dressed in a sleek white coat, black sunglasses, and a killer blonde wig -- David Bowie's "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)" blares on the '80s-dominated soundtrack. It's a great song, but savvy filmgoers will instantly recall that it was put to superior use by Quentin Tarantino in Inglourious Basterds; it's the first inkling that everything we're about to see is a subpar retread of better movies. That said, those better movies didn't have Theron, and her steely, sexy turn as a badass spy who kicks serious butt makes Atomic Blonde a cool way to kill a sweltering summer afternoon. Based on the graphic novel The Coldest City, a pulpy espionage thriller by Antony Johnston and Sam Hart, Atomic Blonde is part Bond, part Jason Bourne, and a whole lot of John Wick. That last part isn't surprising since Leitch, a veteran stuntman-turned-filmmaker, co-directed that brutal Keanu Reeves actioner. The body count isn't as high as Wick's, but there's enough bloody mayhem occurring every few minutes to make viewers forgive the muddled, generic plot, bland supporting characters, and scant suspense. The action centerpiece is a nearly ten-minute fight sequence filmed in what appears to be one take: It begins with Broughton battling two thugs on an apartment stairwell, and the vicious melee then continues down the stairs, into a couple of rooms, and eventually out into the streets where she and a severely wounded ally steal a car and try to hold off more baddies who are blasting away at them from another vehicle. It's an amazing piece of filmmaking that packs the visceral, gut-punch feeling of the best Bourne brawls. James McAvoy co-stars as David Percival, an embedded Berlin station chief who aids Broughton. She was told by her superior not to trust anyone during this mission, and that distrust extends to Percival, who may or may not be a treacherous double agent known as Satchel. Percival is a bit of a sleaze, and McAvoy embraces the role with giddy relish, providing what little humor the movie offers. Sadly, Sofia Boutella, playing a rookie French agent, is underused and unnecessary. Her character feels like she was shoehorned into the plot to provide the film with a gratuitous lesbian sex scene with Theron -- she deserves better. Atomic Blonde doesn't possess the sophistication of the best Bond movies or the intensity and suspense of the Bourne films, although it shamelessly pilfers from both. It's strictly a low-rent affair dressed up in neon-bright high style. But it does have Charlize Theron, whose high-level spy is even tougher than the truck-driving Furiosa she played in Mad Max: Fury Road. Rarely has a movie featured as many extreme close-ups of a star as the Oscar winner gets here, and Theron makes the most of every one of them, to the point that she renders everything else onscreen irrelevant. To say you can't take your eyes off her is an understatement.