2014 · action
Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses
Directed by Craig Moss1h 31m2014
Vietnam vet Frank Vega now runs an East L.A. community center where he trains young boxers to survive in and out of the ring. But when his prize student falls in with the wrong crowd and turns up dead, Frank teams up with his pal Bernie to take matters into their own fists and prove that justice never gets old.
Our read: Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses (2014) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- intimate
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