2012 · drama · crime · thriller
Black's Game
Directed by Óskar Thór Axelsson1h 44m2012
In the mid to late '90s, the Reykjavik crime and drug scene saw a drastic change from a relatively small and innocent world into a much more aggressive and violent one.. The film tells the story of this change through the fictional gang of pushers that took control of Iceland's underworld.
Our read: Black's Game (2012) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded drama · crime · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme drama / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
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