"Atomic Blonde" (2017)

I think they came up with the name before they came up with the story.
It's typical spy shit and sorry, CHAR...LIZE this movie is awful. Not bad, but since you feel her effort. But it is such a derivative of every movie that came before you and I don't buy for a split second you are this badass. You are a diluted triple dip Similac version of Angelina Jolie in "Salt." What made her more badass than you? She actually IS crazy. In fact, in some points you think it is Jolie.

Poor casting, poor set pieces, poor set-up and the lousy MacGuffin, about the only thing going for it is the music. And it doesn't know how to play itself. Is it coming from the walkman (this is 1989) or the soundtrack or is it a re-mix of the song, which COMPLETELY takes you out of the era. And the look, many have made mention of the look. It's what a kid looking at a history book of the 80's thinks late 80's looks like.And that's bad. It's silly. In fact, I fell asleep during this movie. Because it was so colorfully bland.

Should I go into the story? Nope. It's like "Domino" A bruised and beaten hero tells her tale of how she got to where she got to. And then...the very cliche twists and turns and spy games and...ugh...tiresome dreck. The movie is something we've seen plenty of times and there is nothing new and worse...we really don't care how cool Charlize thinks she is. She isn't.
The action...passable. I was surprise how un-convincing she is despite the training she endured to get there. She's not that person. That same thing that worked for Keanu, doesn't work for her. And I WANTED her to be that person. But you don't care about her. At least in "John Wick" we cared about his dog.
Total disappointment.