2025 · drama · thriller · sci-fi
Catalyst
Directed by Christopher Folkens1h 36m2025
Seven men are abducted and held by mysterious masked captors. As the mystery behind their captivity unfolds, they must decide their path: choose one of them to die, or take the leap of faith there may be another way out to save them all.
Our read: Catalyst (2025) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive drama · thriller · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- intense
- twisty
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