2009 · crime · thriller
Dolan's Cadillac
Directed by Jeff Beesley1h 29m2009
Robinson, a once peaceful, law-abiding school teacher, has turned into an obsessed vengeance machine, intent on killing the man who murdered his wife - ruthless Las Vegas mob boss James Dolan. But to do so, Robinson must infiltrate the dangerous underworld, and devise a diabolical plan that will bury Dolan once and for all.
Our read: Dolan's Cadillac (2009) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded crime · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, measured crime / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
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- brisk
- intense
- cold
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