2004 · action · comedy · crime
After the Sunset
Directed by Brett Ratner1h 37m2004
An FBI agent is suspicious of two master thieves, quietly enjoying their retirement near what may - or may not - be the biggest score of their careers.
Our read: After the Sunset (2004) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · comedy · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured action / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- twisty
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“You want sun-soaked retired-thief banter with light heist flirtation.”
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