1993 · action · cop · gritty
Crime Story
Directed by Kirk Wong Chi-Keung1h 47m1993
A special agent is assigned to protect a wealthy business magnate. However, when the businessman is kidnapped in a daring ambush, he teams up with a seasoned detective to crack the case. But soon he discovers the case isn't that simple.
Our read: Crime Story (1993) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · cop · gritty entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / cop, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
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