Written by Kurt Johnstad.
Directed by David Leitch.
★★★
There is a fight scene in a stairway that lasts for over ten minutes, and it's all in one take. That alone is worth the price of admission.
This feels like a crime thriller that could have been a bad John Le Carre adaptation, but it's been amped up with stunts and swagger. Theron plays Lorraine Broughton, an MI6 agent sent to Berlin during the week in 1989 that the Wall is expected to fall. She needs to track down a spy who supposedly has a list of double-agents, and that could be dangerous if it falls into the wrong hands.
The soundtrack's full of 1980's goodness, and Theron knows how to combine sensuality and martial artistry. James McAvoy also has a good time in his very non-Professor X role as her contact in Berlin who may or may not be looking for an opportunity to betray her.
It's from the co-director of John Wick, and it shows.
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