2016 · action · crime · sci-fi
Criminal
Directed by Ariel Vromen1h 53m2016
CIA Agent Bill Pope is on a mission to track down a shadowy hacker named 'The Dutchman'. When he gets mysteriously killed, an experimental procedure transfers his memories into a dangerous ex-convict. When he wakes up Pope's memories, his mission is to eliminate The Dutchman before the hacker launches ICBMs and starts World War III.
Our read: Criminal (2016) reads as a heavy, breathless, surreal action · crime · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / crime, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- cold
- twisty
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