{"id":36562,"date":"2024-08-29T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36562"},"modified":"2024-08-24T23:26:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T03:26:50","slug":"atomic-blonde-2017-directed-by-david-leitch-starring-charlize-theron-james-mcavoy-john-goodman-sofia-boutella-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36562","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Atomic Blonde&#8221; (2017) directed by David Leitch, starring Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, John Goodman &amp;  Sofia Boutella \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z082924zview_atomicblonde.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"711\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Atomic Blonde (2017)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>David Leitch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay:\u00a0 <strong>Kurt Johnstad <\/strong>based on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/477Sx9q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Coldest City<\/a> by <strong>Antony Johnston, Sam Hart<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Charlize Theron, James McAvoy<\/strong><strong>, John Goodman, Toby Jones, James Faulkner, Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd, Sam Hargrave, J\u00f3hannes Haukur J\u00f3hannesson, Til Schweiger, Declan Hannigan<\/strong>\u00a0and<strong> Sofia Boutella.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 <em>Talents can be overrated.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">1999.\u00a0 The cold war rages.\u00a0 When a MI6 agent is executed and microfilm containing <em>The List<\/em> of every active secret agent is stolen, Lorraine Broughton (Theron) is sent undercover to Berlin.\u00a0 Her mission is to recover <em>The List<\/em> at all costs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lorraine is warned that a KGB double agent only known as The Satchel is active in the area.\u00a0 Immediately after arriving in Berlin, an assassination attempt on Loraine is attempted.\u00a0 She barely survives. Loraine then meets her contact David Percival (McAvoy), an MI6 deep undercover agent.\u00a0 As Loraine works to find <em>The List,<\/em> she encounters Delphine Lasalle (Boutella) who claims to be a French agent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Not sure who she can trust, Lorraine must find<em> The List<\/em> before it falls into enemy hands.\u00a0 Failure to do so will cost the lives of dozens of agents&#8230; including her.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">David Leitch co-directed John Wick.\u00a0 He decided to do this film rather than<em> John Wick Chapter 2<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Charlize Theron and Keanu Reeves trained together.\u00a0 Reeves was getting in shape for <em>John Wick Chapter 2<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is a fight scene that moves up\/down stairs and through several rooms that last about ten minutes.\u00a0 It appears (thanks to clever editing) to be done in one continuous shot.<\/p>\n<p>Charlize Theron, James McAvoy and Sofia Boutella are perfect.\u00a0 The supporting cast is amazing.<\/p>\n<p>David Leitch has created an action classic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><em>Atomic Blonde (2017) <\/em><\/strong>rates 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z082924zview_atomicblonde2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"330\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atomic Blonde (2017) Director: David Leitch Screenplay:\u00a0 Kurt Johnstad based on The Coldest City by Antony Johnston, Sam Hart Stars:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,56,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-comics","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36563,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36562\/revisions\/36563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}