2025 · comedy · action · drama
Code 3
Directed by Christopher Leone1h 40m2025
A burned-out paramedic tries to survive his last 24 hours on the job while training a new recruit.
Our read: Code 3 (2025) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive comedy · action · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured comedy / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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