2022 · action · drama · thriller
Emergency Declaration
Directed by Han Jae-rim2h 20m2022
While investigating a terroristic threat that goes viral online, Korean authorities discover that a suspect has recently boarded an international flight bound for the United States. When a healthy passenger on the same flight suddenly dies a gruesome death of unknown cause, panic erupts both in-flight and on the ground. With steadily decreasing fuel and international refusals to offer aid, the captain and crew will be forced to take unprecedented emergency measures in an attempt to save the lives of their passengers.
Our read: Emergency Declaration (2022) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive action · drama · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
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