2024 · action · crime · thriller
Absolution
Directed by Hans Petter Moland1h 52m2024
An aging ex-boxer gangster working as muscle for a Boston crime boss receives an upsetting diagnosis. Despite a faltering memory, he attempts to rectify the sins of his past and reconnect with his estranged children. He is determined to leave a positive legacy for his grandson, but the criminal underworld isn’t done with him and won’t loosen their grip willingly.
Our read: Absolution (2024) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive action · crime · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / crime, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
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