Vs. Atomic Blonde

I didn't manage to see it the other night, but will try to see it before it ends it's theatre run...

On the skinny girl thing is it very obvious? So much so that it spoils the suspention of disbelief?

The thing is, it doesn't really matter how muscular or big the women are, it's almost unheard of to have a woman overpower a full grown, trained man. Even the top female professional fighters (mostly on riods) would be killed (literally) in a fight with the average male fighter... The physical differences between the two are stark... muscle, bone density, aggressiveness, size and body control... In real life trained female cops have trouble subduing regular men, without using firearms it takes multiple women and even then they tend not to stand a chance if the man resists.

But this is a movie, fantasy, about a ballerina turned seductress killer assassin... So we kinda have to have her be sexy and for the kills thrilling as well for the movie to work as entertainment... Does it not work?

Red Sparrow: C
Atomic Blonde: D

Red Sparrow was more of a traditional spy film. I felt like I was watching an old spy film of cold war era, because of its cold, dark atmosphere without any bright color palette. It doesn’t distract with too many subplots or many characters, it’s a pretty straightforward story with a mandatory twist ending. I enjoyed the spy training school. But where it succeeds in, I think it fails on many other fronts. It doesn’t have enough to distinguish itself or bring anything new to the table in this genre. I thought it lacked a little inventiveness and suspense for one thing.

Atomic Blonde on the other hand is a much more modern action flick than a spy drama. Things move at much faster pace there and it got plenty of action. But it was such a hot mess. Theron was more like a comic book character than a spy really, and that didn’t work for me. She didn’t sell me as a spy, I thought Lawrence did it better. But I liked the soundtrack in Atomic Blonde. So there you go, it’s hard to say which one is better, it depends. They’re definitely different.

Why everyone got a problem with accents in Red Sparrow? I got no problem with that. It was fine to me.

I had the most confusing boners after that movie. Ahhahah