2014 · thriller · sci-fi · action
Calculator
Directed by Dmitry Grachev1h 23m2014
Ten prisoners condemned to exile on a hostile planet XT-59 must pave the way through swamp to reach the Islands of Happiness, the only safe area on the planet, before the harsh climate or the underground horrors kill them all.
Our read: Calculator (2014) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive thriller · sci-fi · action entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured thriller / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- cold
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