2018 · drama · action · adventure
Animal World
Directed by Han Yan2h 5m2018
Backed into a corner by mounting debts, a youth agrees to submit himself to a high stakes game of chance in international waters aboard a disused warship.
Our read: Animal World (2018) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive drama · action · adventure entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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“You want stylized Chinese action built around tense high-stakes gambling games.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if a long debt-ridden setup or surreal fantasy sequences will bore you tonight.
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