2022 · war · drama · action
Devotion
Directed by J.D. Dillard2h 19m2022
The harrowing true story of two elite US Navy fighter pilots during the Korean War. Their heroic sacrifices would ultimately make them the Navy's most celebrated wingmen.
Our read: Devotion (2022) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded war · drama · action entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme war / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
- epic-stakes
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