![]() Sam (Karen Gillan) is an expert assassin at an organization known as the Firm. The women work for an unscrupulous boss who wouldn’t think twice before selling out his employees. Like ‘Kate,’ ‘ Gunpowder Milkshake’ is a film about female assassins. Like in ‘Kate,’ there are several characters in ‘Atomic Blonde’ who hide important information from the protagonist. With his reluctant help, Lorraine starts searching for the List. Once in Berlin, she meets David Percival ( James McAvoy), her contact in the city. It is a microfilm document used to store critical information about every operative in Berlin, regardless of their allegiance. She is sent to Germany a few days before the fall of the Berlin Wall to retrieve an item called the List. I suggest you go for it.Based on the 2012 graphic novel ‘The Coldest City’ by Antony Johnston and Sam Hart, ‘ Atomic Blonde’ revolves around MI6 field operative Lorraine Broughton ( Charlize Theron). It may not be something that you necessarily want, But it is there for us to take. It’s about a woman on the brink of disintegration who briefly finds the protective mother within her only to lose it by the time the day ends. I wish the great Woody Harrelson’s part as Kate’s mentor-turned –tormentor was less predictable. ![]() But it is dexterously written and the main character throbs with a palpable pain. Kate is not a great film by any standards. In Kate, Tokyo is a living character.Shot as an intoxicating paradise of crime the city grips you from the beginning. It didn’t matter which city Nikita belonged to. But the bloodspill in that film engaged on a very chamberpiece level. The unrelenting action and the assassin-victim’s mentor-pupil bonding reminded me of Luc Besson’s La Femme Nikita. They make a solid companionship, blazing their way through the gauntlet of gore and guns, giving us not a moment of respite from the calamitous action. As Ani, the isolated heiress from a family of brutal assassins, Martineau gives Winstead tit for tat. ![]() This is a full-scale one-man army film where the ‘man’ is a woman who takes on the macho role of the male superhero with more resignation than pride.īesides Winstead’s winning performance Kate has another superb female actor the very young and explosive Japanese Miku Martineau. And the volume of physical violence!!!! Kate is either shooting her adversaries or getting shot at. She unapologetically owns every wound every scar of the character. Winstead is in almost every frame of this fetchingly shot(by Lyle Vincent) action thriller. The amount of blood sweat and ligament tears she has invested into her role is to be seen to be believed. This is the singer-actress’ first major role. I felt for the assassin heroine Kate played with stirring fluidity by Mary Elizabeth Winstead. But I found the emotional heft of Kate far beyond Kill Bill. But its emotional and visual richness and the relentless determination to find a moral centre in a world gone irreversible awry, make it quite a tour de force.įorceful in execution and emphatically unapologetic about the blood-flow Kate reminded me of Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill, the film that Kate bows to. It is not one of the most original action thrillers in recent times. Starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Miku Martineau, Woody Harrelsonĭespite the demonically dismissive reviews abroad, I fell in love with Kate.
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