2018 · thriller · action · drama
Asher
Directed by Michael Caton-Jones1h 57m2018
Asher is a former Mossad agent turned gun for hire, living an austere life in an ever-changing Brooklyn. Approaching the end of his career, he breaks the oath he took as a young man when he meets Sophie on a hit gone wrong. In order to have love in his life before it's too late, he must kill the man he was, for a chance at becoming the man he wants to be.
Our read: Asher (2018) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded thriller · action · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured thriller / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- intense
- cold
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