2012 · action · thriller · spy
A Dark Truth
Directed by Damian Lee1h 46m2012
In the jungles of Ecuador, blood taints the waters. A multinational conglomerate's unholy alliance with a bloodthirsty military regime has resulted in a massacre. Only the rebel Francisco Franco and his determined wife Mia can prove the truth. To settle a personal debt, former CIA agent Jack Begosian takes on the freelance assignment to rescue Francisco and risks everything in a brutal battle to expose the cover-up.
Our read: A Dark Truth (2012) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded action · thriller · spy entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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