2026 · thriller · drama · revenge
Ballistic
Directed by Chad Faust1h 31m2026
When a soldier's mother discovers the bullet that killed her son in Afghanistan was made at the factory where she works, she sets out on a path of revenge against those responsible.
Our read: Ballistic (2026) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded thriller · drama · revenge entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme thriller / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- extreme
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