2017 · action · drama · spy
Confidential Assignment
Directed by Kim Sung-hoon2h 5m2017
When a crime organization from North Korea crosses borders and enters South Korean soil, a South Korean detective must cooperate with a North Korean detective to investigate their whereabouts.
Our read: Confidential Assignment (2017) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded action · drama · spy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured action / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- kinetic
- intense
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