2013 · action · thriller
A Common Man
Directed by Chandran Rutnam1h 26m2013
A terrorist plants several bombs throughout the city of Colombo, Sri Lanka and threatens to detonate them unless prisoners are released.
Our read: A Common Man (2013) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · thriller entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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