2014 · action · adventure · thriller
Big Game
Directed by Jalmari Helander1h 30m2014
Air Force One is shot down by terrorists, leaving the President of the United States stranded in the wilderness of Finland. 13-year-old Oskari is on a hunting mission to prove his maturity to his kinsfolk by tracking down a deer, but instead discovers the President in an escape pod. With the terrorists closing in to capture their prize, the unlikely duo team up to escape their hunters.
Our read: Big Game (2014) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded action · adventure · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme action / adventure, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- kinetic
- intense
- epic-stakes
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