2014 · adventure · drama · thriller
Black Sea
Directed by Kevin Macdonald1h 55m2014
A rogue submarine captain pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure rumored to be lost in the depths of the Black Sea. As greed and desperation take control on-board their claustrophobic vessel, the increasing uncertainty of the mission causes the men to turn on each other to fight for their own survival.
Our read: Black Sea (2014) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded adventure · drama · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured adventure / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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