2025 · action · comedy · crime
Bad Man
Directed by Michael Diliberti1h 38m2025
In Colt Lake, Tennessee, Sam Evans tackles a meth epidemic. He is side-lined on arrival of Bobby Gaines, an undercover agent. Despite Evans' local ties, Gaines is hailed as hero. Suspicions arise on Gaines which unravels a complex narrative.
Our read: Bad Man (2025) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded action · comedy · crime entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured action / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
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- twisty
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