2009 · drama · action · comedy
Defendor
Directed by Peter Stebbings1h 41m2009
A crooked cop, a mob boss and the young girl they abuse are the denizens of a city's criminal underworld. It's a world that ordinary Arthur Poppington doesn't understand and doesn't belong in, but is committed to fighting when he changes into a vigilante super-hero of his own making, Defendor. With no power other than courage Defendor takes to the streets to protect the city's innocents.
Our read: Defendor (2009) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive drama · action · comedy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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