2024 · action · thriller · survival
Aftermath
Directed by Patrick Lussier1h 35m2024
A returning war veteran, stricken with PTSD, gets trapped with his teenage sister on Boston's Tobin Memorial Bridge when a heavily armed group of ex-military revolutionaries take everyone hostage.
Our read: Aftermath (2024) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · thriller · survival entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
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