2020 · action · revenge · music
Army of One
Directed by Stephen Durham1h 27m2020
Out hiking, Special Forces Brenner Baker stumbles onto a Cartel's compound. Her husband's killed and she's left for dead. The Cartel made two mistakes, killed her husband and left her alive. They won't live to make another.
Our read: Army of One (2020) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · revenge · music entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / revenge, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- cold
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“You want mindless backwoods revenge where the heroine never stops shooting.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if cheap action and cartel clichés will irritate more than entertain.
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