2018 · crime · action · adventure
Backtrace
Directed by Brian A. Miller1h 32m2018
The lone surviving thief of a violent armored car robbery is sprung from a high security facility and administered an experimental drug.
Our read: Backtrace (2018) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded crime · action · adventure entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured crime / action, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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