2012 · action · crime · thriller
Bullet to the Head
Directed by Walter Hill1h 32m2012
After watching their respective partners die, a cop and a hitman form an alliance in order to bring down their common enemy.
Our read: Bullet to the Head (2012) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded action · crime · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- cold
- twisty
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