2021 · sci-fi · action · adventure
Ape vs. Monster
Directed by Daniel Lusko1h 30m2021
An ape crash-lands on Earth, which creates a sludge that makes him and a passing lizard grow to giant-size, resulting in a fight for dominance.
Our read: Ape vs. Monster (2021) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive sci-fi · action · adventure entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured sci-fi / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
- cold
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