There’s no dearth of streaming titles that delve deep into the high-risk business of drug smuggling. At first glance, feels the same, with alum Alfie Allen playing Max, a street-smart errand boy delivering some dodgy shipments for a drug cartel.
But when he makes an unlikely alliance with a stranger named JJ (Shazad Latif), the duo realises their shipment might not be your average bag of narcotics but something more nuclear in scope. This results in a cat-and-mouse game between the cartel and the authorities, as our heroes are pursued across the Saharan desert and North African settlements.
The cast and crew of braved arid landscapes and sweltering temperatures to bring this story to life. These are the locations where they filmed it all.
Atomic was entirely filmed in this African nat