"Atomic Blonde" Shows There's Still No Female James Bond

First there was Salt. Then there was Haywire. Atomic Blonde is Hollywood's third strike in the attempt to establish a female spy franchise. Rather than a unique entry in the spy/assassin movie genre, Atomic Blonde is more of a sample platter of past ideas.

Atomic features a watered-down version of the fight choreography seen in John Wick and samples Jason Bourne's camera-work. Like 007, Blonde's MI6 agent Lorraine Broughton navigates the Cold War and charms her way into the panties of a sexy woman who later winds up dead. Like both James Bond (Skyfall) and Ethan Hunt (Mission: Impossible) before her, she's tasked with retrieving a master list of covert agents before their covers are blown. 

On the plus side, it is better than both Salt and Haywire.





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