re: #25 KGxvi

Full disclosure: I’m a second degree black belt in karate but haven’t actively trained in a very, very long time.

I’ll take a well trained female fighter over the average guy (regardless of weight classes) any day of the week and twice on Sundays. But if they’re both well/evenly trained, the guy is going to have the advantage even within weight classes.

That is what I appreciated about how the long fight scene in Atomic Blonde was laid out. She is trained, and so are the male antagonists. She avoids getting into protracted slug matches where upper body strength works against her and she uses her legs, lower body (and things like hot plates, part of a disassembled SVD sniper rifle, a corkscrew etc) and when she gets a guy down, she tries to move on with her mission and escape.

Also, the movie is not shy about showing just how much damage she takes.