2016 · action · crime · thriller
Asura: The City of Madness
Directed by Kim Sung-soo2h 16m2016
A shady cop finds himself in over his head when he gets caught between Internal Affairs and the city’s corrupt mayor.
Our read: Asura: The City of Madness (2016) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded action · crime · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
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