Jim Schembri’s New Movie Reviews

Jim Schembri’s New Movie Reviews Jim Schembri’s New Movie Reviews After being the only interesting thing in Mad Max: Fury Road and giving the Fast & Furious crew a run for their money in F8 Charlize Theron here consolidates her position as cinema’s most dangerous action movie female. (And let’s never forget the honourable turn she did as Aeon Flux back in 2005.) Set in the blue-filtered Cold War era, Theron plays a British agent tasked with locating an invaluable list of double agents. This involves messing with a semi-psycho James McAvoy (a very comfortable fit since Split) and a plot that puts her at the centre of a lot of marvellously choreographed fighting and gunplay. As if to set new benchmark for gritty, post-Bourne action realism, one remarkable sequence involves her in an extended close quarters fight that involves fists, feet, guns and a car chase, all brilliantly mounted to look as though it was filmed in one take (something that would have been physically impossible). The plot does take a little while to get into gear, but once it kicks in the action comes loud and fast. McAvoy makes a great foil but it’s top-shelf British character actor Eddie Marsan who puts in the best support.