2008 · action · adventure · spy
Dasavatharam
Directed by K. S. Ravikumar3h 8m2008
Bio-technologist Govind K Somaiyya sets about on a precarious journey to India to retrieve a vial containing a deadly virus and prevent it from reaching the wrong hands of an ex-CIA agent and deadly assassins.
Our read: Dasavatharam (2008) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive action · adventure · spy entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured action / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- kinetic
- inventive
- twisty
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