2021 · action · sci-fi · thriller
Boss Level
Directed by Joe Carnahan1h 41m2021
A former special forces agent is trapped in a time loop and relives his death over and over again. To escape the terrible situation, he must track down those responsible and stop them.
Our read: Boss Level (2021) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive action · sci-fi · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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