2023 · war · action · thriller
Ambush
Directed by Mark Burman1h 44m2023
When a small outpost is ambushed, a US Army squad must take the battle below ground on a high-stakes mission in a new type of warfare the likes of which they have never seen.
Our read: Ambush (2023) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded war · action · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme war / action, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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