2009 · action · adventure · thriller
Direct Contact
Directed by Danny Lerner1h 30m2009
An imprisoned ex-US Special forces operative in Eastern Europe, is offered his freedom and money to rescue an American woman, who has been kidnapped by a ruthless warlord. But, shortly after freeing her discovers that the kidnap story was just a ruse to bring her out into the open.
Our read: Direct Contact (2009) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded action · adventure · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured action / adventure, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
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- cold
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