Cleanskin
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- bleak
- cold
Heavy, breathless, extreme drama / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →While working undercover as a bodyguard to arms dealer Harry, former-soldier-turned-secret-service-agent Ewan survives a bloody shootout with a member of an Islamic terrorist cell who steals Harry's briefcase full of Semtex explosives and escapes. Ewan's spymasters task Ewan with hunting down the cell members and retrieving the briefcase.
Our read · Cleanskin (2012) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded drama · thriller · crime entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of Cleanskin
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