As Summer 2017 comes to a close, here’s your chance to vote for your favourite blockbuster of the season!
Comment your thoughts on this year’s batch below and share the poll when you’ve voted!
N.B. The criteria for inclusion here, to be termed a ‘blockbuster’, was a budget of at least $100m – regardless of Box Office Performance – and a May-August 2017 release.
Were they not serious box office big hitters – and among the most successful animated films of all time at that – it might be easy to dismiss the Despicable Me films as being mid-tier ‘kiddie features’.
If Atomic Blonde achieves anything it is that the film, from stunt coordinator-turned-director David Leitch, thoroughly cements Charlize Theron’s status as one of the premiere action stars in cinema today. Fresh from The Fate and the Furious, having dominated too Mad Max: Fury Road, Theron owns the film from stilettoed start to erudite end. An excuse for a cornucopia of action set pieces, Atomic Blonde offers fun aplenty along the ride, even if as a whole the complete picture never quite satiates the appetite wishing for just a bit more oomph to its plot.
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