“She doesn’t play by our rules…”
By Joe Gorman
Welcome to #TrailerChest, where we’re taking a sneak peek at the brand new trailer for Atomic Blonde.
Plot’s it all about?
When you hear that the director of a film is a former stunt double who is scheduled to direct Deadpool 2, you can probably guess it isn’t the latest Alvin And The Chipmunks sequel.
The trailer for David Leitch’s Atomic Blonde greets us with a fight scene that looks like the lovechild of Bourne and Birdman; mixed martial arts, snapping necks and crunching bones, all in a single, clean shot. And that’s only the beginning.
Academy Award winner Charlize Theron is Lorraine Broughton, MI6 operative and professional arse-kicker. An expert in escape and evasion (as well as seduction, as Sofia Boutella’s Sandrine seems to discover), she is sent to the live volcano of 1989 Berlin to turn the tables on an espionage ring killing MI6 agents.
Ordered to ally with station chief David Percival (James McAvoy, who looks to still be in Split mode), the pair form a reluctant partnership, slaughtering East German police like they’re in a kind of Cold War Hunger Games. Under the direction David Leitch, the film’s tone looks to be a hybrid of le Carré and Kingsman: The Secret Service, blending Berlin Wall diplomatic frailities with explosions, spectacular deaths and a rather more graphic kind of international relations.
In the fight for the West’s intelligence services, Theron, McAvoy et al are guaranteed, in Freddie Mercury’s words, to blow your mind, anytime.
Starring: Charlize Theron, Sofia Boutella, James McAvoy, and an all-star supporting cast including John Goodman and Toby Jones
Directed by: David Leitch
Irish and UK release date: 11 August 2017
Enjoy…
Clip via Universal Pictures Ireland
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