I decided to read “Coldest City” on which Atomic Blonde is based.
It’s much simpler, really, less flashy. Not just in the way it looks, all black and white, no grays. But in the way the story is told.
There’s no fight in the car after the airport. Percival just picks Loraine up. He’s also plain guy in his ’50s, not a crazy bartender James McAvoy portrays. And of course there’s no French lesbian. Instead there’s much more conventional French guy.
When Loraine tries to extract Spyglass, there’s just a single shooter, not half a dozen. And when police arrives at her appartment, she doesn’t beat them up, instead the French spy scares them off.
And now to the plot twists. First one is interesting, as the entire story with the list of spies might have been a ploy. And the second point is that Loraine is just a double-agent, not a triple-agent, like in the movie.
