2019 · crime · action · thriller
Avengement
Directed by Jesse V. Johnson1h 28m2019
While on a prison furlough, a lowly criminal evades his guards and returns to his old stomping ground to take revenge on the people who turned him into a cold blooded killer.
Our read: Avengement (2019) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded crime · action · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme crime / action, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- cold
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“You want Scott Adkins prison-break revenge with brutal, clean fight craft.”
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