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    Atomic Blonde (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

    Different stars

    • 1 David BowieCat People (Putting Out Fire) 6:43
    • 2 Peter SchillingMajor Tom (Völlig Losgelöst) 4:58
    • 3 HEALTHBlue Monday 4:46
    • 4 Тайлер БейтсC*cks*cker 1:48
    • 5 Nena99 Luftballons 3:52
    • 6 George MichaelFather Figure 5:37
    • 7 After the FireDer Kommissar 5:41
    • 8 Siouxsie & The BansheesCities In Dust 4:04
    • 9 Re-FlexThe Politics of Dancing 3:56
    • 10 Marilyn Manson & Тайлер БейтсStigmata 5:37
    • 11 Тайлер БейтсDemonstration 3:45
    • 12 A Flock of SeagullsI Ran (So Far Away) 5:06
    • 13 Kaleida99 Luftballons 3:53
    • 14 'Til TuesdayVoices Carry 4:19
    • 15 The ClashLondon Calling 3:20
    • 16 Тайлер БейтсFinding the UHF Device 2:49

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    Country
    Spoken Language
    Runtime 1 hr 55 min
    Budget $30 000 000
    Premiere: World $100 014 025 July 26, 2017
    USA $51 687 870
    Other countries $48 326 155
    Box Office – Budget $70 014 025
    Premiere: USA $51 687 870 July 28, 2017
    first day $7 108 190
    first weekend $18 286 420
    rollout 157 days
    Digital: World October 24, 2017
    Parental Advisory
    • Violence & Gore

      plenty

    • Frightening & Intense Scenes

      average

    • Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

      average

    • Profanity

      average

    • Sex & Nudity

      average

    Production Companies Film i VästFocus FeaturesDenver and Delilah Productions...Sierra / AffinityPioneer Stillking FilmsClosed on Mondays Entertainment87ElevenT.G.I.M FilmsChickie the Cop
    Also Known As
    Atómica United States
    Atomszőke Hungary

    Description

    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.

    Сast and Crew

    Comic Book Behind "Atomic Blonde"

    Overview

    The film "Atomic Blonde" is based on the graphic novel The Coldest City.

    Author

    About the Comic

    The Coldest City is a graphic novel set during the Cold War, specifically in the days leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall. It follows a British spy who is sent to Berlin to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a list of double agents.

    Film Adaptation

    The film adaptation, while maintaining the core plot and setting of the graphic novel, introduces several changes to enhance its cinematic appeal. The film adds more action sequences and a different narrative style to suit the medium of film. Despite these changes, the film remains true to the novel's atmosphere and central themes.

    Production

    An adaptation of the graphic novel The Coldest City was announced in May 2015. Described by Variety as a "Passion Project" for Theron, she first came across the story five years prior, when her production company Denver and Delilah Productions was sent the then-unpublished graphic novel. Theron's interest in the first John Wick movie inspired her to get David Leitch, one of the directors, to helm the project. Leitch eventually left John Wick: Chapter 2 to direct the film. According to Theron, the success of Mad Max: Fury Road helped guide the development of Atomic Blonde. The film features a bisexual subplot that was not in the original book. This came from writer Kurt Johnstad, who suggested it after Theron was "thinking about how do you make this different from other spy movies". Leitch has insisted that the scenes are not there to be "provocative", but "more about if you are a spy you will do whatever it takes to get information" and how the main character "find[s] her intimacies and her friendships in small doses".

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    Critique: 61

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    TheWrap July 27, 2017

    Should this be a series, audiences can look back on Atomic Blonde as the erratic-but-on-to-something near miss that it is, in the way that&nbs...

    MovieFreak.com July 28, 2017

    Theron is wonderful and Leitch proves he’s got impressive directorial chops. As dopey as the central mystery at the heart of this Cold War sp...

    Chicago Sun-Times July 27, 2017

    The visuals in Atomic Blonde pop right off the screen. Leitch periodically zooms in for tight close-ups of the stunning Theron, who conveys a world...

    Entertainment Weekly July 27, 2017

    Atomic Blonde is simply an exercise in style. But what style!

    New Statesman August 17, 2017

    Even an actor as good as Theron can’t turn a set of cynical commercial considerations into a character.

    Vulture July 28, 2017

    You don’t go to operas for dancing or ballets for singing, and you don’t see Atomic Blonde for anything but a badass female protag...

    Observer July 29, 2017

    Can a woman step into James Bond’s shoes? Duh, says Charlize Theron as she performs the cold-as-ice secret agent shtick backwards, and i...

    Vox July 27, 2017

    Sometimes in life, all you want is something that looks super awesome, regardless of whether it makes any sense. Atomic Blonde manages that trick i...

    NOW Toronto July 27, 2017

    Finds pleasures in the way Theron can own her feminism and also more conventional ideas of femininity at the same time. She’s both sexy and l...

    AV Club July 27, 2017

    Theron owns it. She purrs every line and relishes every opportunity to crack her neck while reclining into a leather chair.

    Slant Magazine July 26, 2017

    The film frequently loses sight of its own action to glibly pay homage to other works.

    Times (UK) August 10, 2017

    What Theron sells superbly, as she did in Mad Max: Fury Road in 2015, is, simply, ferocity.

    Hollywood Reporter March 13, 2017

    As enjoyable as Atomic Blonde can be at times, its main utility may be its demonstration that Theron deserves better than this.

    RogerEbert.com July 26, 2017

    Theron’s commanding performance is remarkable because she gives to her character, through her take-no-bull body language and calculating star...

    Refinery29 July 27, 2017

    We don’t need a woman-version of [James Bond]. We need a fully-fledged, complex woman who stands on her own. And Atomic Blonde gives us...

    Newsday July 27, 2017

    An absolute blast, with a never-sexier Theron in some of the best action scenes to hit a screen.

    A pulsing spy thriller with sex, excellent music and bucketloads of riveting action, Atomic Blonde owes its success to Charlize Theron’s abil...

    The Guardian August 9, 2017

    Theron carries it off with style of course …

    New York Post July 28, 2017

    Theron makes one hell of a superspy, and it’s high time she got her "John Wick" moment.

    Globe and Mail July 28, 2017

    Atomic Blonde is bold, brazen and frequently bonkers. But it’s also killer.

    New York Daily News July 25, 2017

    To its credit, even the film realizes how ridiculous it is.

    The Guardian August 13, 2017

    You forget to breathe. More importantly, you forget to question the needlessly complicated layers of double-crossing that clog up the third act of...

    The New Republic July 27, 2017

    Atomic Blonde is the proverbial stained-glass window, only made of very bright and unsubtle neon. Unhindered by other pretensions, however, it mark...

    Irish Times August 15, 2017

    Charlize Theron works furiously to bring some small weight to a character so feathery she barely manages to remain attached to the screen.

    Los Angeles Times July 27, 2017

    "Atomic Blonde" may be a delirious exercise in outré nonsense, but it can also be a brutally effective action picture when the inspi...

    Daily Telegraph July 27, 2017

    Leitch has form here – he was one half of the team who gave us Keanu Reeves as a soul-sick assassin in John Wick – and outdoes himse...

    Movie Mom July 27, 2017

    Unlike its title character, "Atomic Blonde" keeps missing the mark.

    NPR July 27, 2017

    Atomic Blonde may be high in empty calories, but craftsmanship of this level is rare and exhilarating, and worth surviving some muddled plotting to...

    ReelViews July 27, 2017

    Headlined by a committed Charlize Theron, Atomic Blonde offers the kind of kick-ass female action hero the non-superhero side of the genre cou...

    indieWire March 15, 2017

    Atomic Blonde is a story of a hidden dealings and murky agendas, but only one certainty: On the heels of her scene-stealing moments in Mad Max...

    Little White Lies July 28, 2017

    Leitch’s across-the-board approach is purely cosmetic, ever-ready to eschew shades of detail when crass shorthand will suffice.

    The Atlantic August 2, 2017

    The action in Atomic Blonde is top-shelf; but the plot that knits it together, crucial to any good spy film, is a whole lot flimsier.

    Austin Chronicle July 27, 2017

    Atomic Blonde is ultimately as distilled and transparent as Lorraine’s signature drink, but its remaining ingredients still manage to pack qu...

    New Yorker July 24, 2017

    Theron keeps her cool throughout the pummelling gyrations, but the film strains to achieve a breathless panache and a lurid swagger for which...

    Empire Magazine August 3, 2017

    It’s cool and brutal, but with such impressive action credentials you almost wish there were fewer plot devices to distract you as Charlize g...

    The Ringer August 4, 2017

    Just because Atomic Blonde acknowledges its own derivativeness doesn’t excuse it or redeem it, in the end.

    Sydney Morning Herald August 10, 2017

    Most of Leitch’s energy goes into the stunts, which have a mesmerising rhythm to them, together with ingeniously intricate choreography.

    CBR March 16, 2017

    Audiences will be helpless but to bow down, as Atomic Blonde has come to take your breathe away, and leave you giddy, gasping for more.

    Associated Press July 26, 2017

    Atomic Blonde is largely a vacant, hyper-stylistic romp that trades on the thick Cold War atmosphere of far better films (not to mention The A...

    TIME Magazine July 27, 2017

    Glowering from beneath the bangs of her moonbeam-platinum bob, Theron’s Broughton is equal parts air, light and iron. We’re just the mo...

    Village Voice July 27, 2017

    Simultaneously byzantine and dumb …

    The Australian August 4, 2017

    The fight scenes are gripping because they look real. It’s not the stylistic biff and bash of a superhero film but up-close bareknuckled...

    Independent August 10, 2017

    When the relationships between the leading characters are all so superficial and everyone is deceiving everyone else, it is very hard to engage emo...

    Rolling Stone July 26, 2017

    Theron, who did most of her own martial-arts stunts, is pure bruising poetry in motion. She’s a stone-cold badass. How can you resist?

    Chicago Reader August 3, 2017

    Adapting Sam Hart and Antony Johnston’s graphic novel The Coldest City, Kurt Johnstad has written a smart exploitation thriller.

    buzzfeed.com July 31, 2017

    It’s a calorie-free serving of simple pleasures, and sometimes that’s exactly what you need.

    Financial Times August 10, 2017

    Watching Atomic Blonde is a cinematic crash course. It’s a course in how to crash a movie, and a script, and a cast; how to cr...

    oneroomwithaview.com August 25, 2018

    A good time – saved by spectacular fight scenes, a colourful cast of supporting characters, and a great lead in Theron.

    Boston Globe July 27, 2017

    The result is hardly a classic, but it’s a damn fine action movie – it works.

    San Diego Reader July 28, 2017

    Perhaps it’s not surprising that [Leitch] winds up with something that feels like a tough-minded drama rejiggered into a hard-bodied action-a...

    Arizona Republic July 27, 2017

    You don’t cast Charlize Theron to lay waste to scores of German and Russian operatives in a Cold War-era spy thriller unless you intend...

    Variety March 13, 2017

    So much uncut hardboiled posturing proves exhausting over a nearly two-hour runtime, and with zero emotional stakes and a plot that is bo...

    hypable.com July 30, 2017

    There is no one more deserving than Charlize Theron to be crowned Hollywood’s next action hero. The story needs work, though.

    Baltimore Magazine July 28, 2017

    Atomic Blonde is less a movie than a mood. But if you’re in the mood for what it has on offer, you’ll emerge one happy camper.

    USA Today July 26, 2017

    Blonde is a new wave-y pretzel of twists on top of twists. It gets a satisfying conclusion, though by then you’re wondering if you reall...

    Wall Street Journal July 27, 2017

    As strong and formidable and commandingly tall as Ms. Theron is, she can’t rise above the gloom.

    Independent August 2, 2017

    Without a doubt one of the greatest action stars of today, Atomic Blonde offers a spectacular platform for Charlize Theron’s skills.

    New York Times July 27, 2017

    Lorraine punches and is punched, and her body is soon mapped by bruises and abrasions. It’s a lot of abuse for such puny returns, even i...

    Detroit News July 28, 2017

    The way it detonates off the screen makes the film live up to its name. It’s atomic, and it’s a blast.

    Toronto Star July 27, 2017

    If the James Bond franchise people ever get creative and cast a female 007, Charlize Theron will have to be high on their list of possible can...

    Screen International July 26, 2017

    Playing a superspy sent into Berlin at the end of the Cold War, Charlize Theron exudes all the icy cool one could want, helping to sell a...

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    Quotes

    I’m not afraid of you, you know.

    The clock is ticking.

    This only ends one way. A bullet.

    I chose this life, and someday it’s going to get me killed. But not today.

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    Watched

    Litch hasn’t gotten the hang of it yet, there are a lot of shots of beautiful actresses that are useless, there are two action scenes that stick out: on the stairs and the very last one. Otherwise, I’m bored. It’s a shame for Boutella’s character. She’s beautiful and dumb. Even too much) I’m not a man, so I give it an honest 6)

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    A couple of lively action scenes. Stylish picture and music. Spectacular Theron (even in nude format). But the plot, of course, is so-so. And the production is weak. Nevertheless – 7

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    This is the second time I’ve watched this movie, and I still can’t get into the plot. Even its text description didn’t really help me understand what was happening on the screen. However, I liked the neon noir style, fight choreography and 80s music. Charlize Theron is good as a spy.

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    Pros: sound, visuals, Charlize. Cons: everything else. It’s okay for a one-time watch.

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    For one time, to be honest, I expected more, although the plot is twisted)

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    Elegant, desperate, feminine. Brutal action mixed with play on words, views, and ideologies. Ushanka, vodka, tovarisch included. Must see.

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    The plot is not about this film. But the music, pictures, costumes, action scenes – everything is at the proper level! What is the car chase on the check alone worth?!

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    I’m not familiar with the original comic, but I liked the film adaptation. Exciting and stylish spy action movie. Old lady Charlize crushes KGB agents to pieces. And the detective line is well twisted.

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