Ali Baba and the 40 thieves (2007) poster
2007 · adventure · action · drama · tv-movie

Ali Baba and the 40 thieves

Directed by Pierre Aknine3h 0m2007
ElsewhereIMDb5.8353
  • sombre
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • epic-stakes
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Sombre, breathless, extreme adventure / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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The story of Ali Baba, who takes on forty thieves to save the Caliph of Baghdad and prevent a war between the Orient and the Occident.

Our read · Ali Baba and the 40 thieves (2007) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded adventure · action · drama entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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