Imagine the melancholy passage this picture has endured in the three years since it was shot: Left to snooze on a high shelf, occasionally pulled down to be poked and prodded by a team of editors in search of a graceful narrative through-line, or at least a few shapely scenes…all in vain. Finally, defeated, the filmmakers gave up and just put the damn thing out. And here it is.
Unlocked is an international-espionage thriller in the very long line of the Bond and Bourne movies, and I hear you stifling a yawn. But this one’s different. Because in this one, the international kickass at the center of things is…a woman. That’s right. And that might’ve sounded sort of bold three years ago, but now it’s come a little late—Atomic Blonde kicks this movie’s butt all over the lot.
It’s not just that dragon-tattoo girl Noomi Rapace is about five inches shorter than Charlize Theron—she’s about seven inches shorter than Orlando Bloom, the most action-y of her costars here. And so she never seems in any way formidable—a quality that Theron can summon with just a lopsided lift of her lip, writes Kurt Loder in his latest review for Reason.
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