2009 · sci-fi · tv-movie · thriller
Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead
Directed by James Strong59m2009
A meeting in a London bus with jewel thief Lady Christina takes a turn for the worse for the Doctor when the bus takes a detour to a desert-like planet, where the deadly Swarm awaits.
Our read: Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead (2009) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive sci-fi · tv-movie · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured sci-fi / tv-movie, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- inventive
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