2016 · sci-fi · action · robot
Code 8
Directed by Jeff Chan11m2016
In Lincoln City, 4% of people have extraordinary abilities. Most live below the poverty line, under the close surveillance of a heavily militarized police force. Taylor, a construction worker with powers, is forced to fight after committing a misdemeanor…
Our read: Code 8 (2016) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive sci-fi · action · robot entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured sci-fi / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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