2019 · action · thriller
Awake
Directed by Alexander Chernyaev1h 32m2019
A man wakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of who he is, and learns that he's wanted by the police for a committing a series of murders.
Our read: Awake (2019) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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“You want a twisty amnesia thriller where a murder suspect races to clear his name.”
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