2008 · action · thriller · music
Exit Speed
Directed by Scott Ziehl1h 33m2008
On Christmas Eve, ten strangers board a bus traveling across Texas and are forced off the road by a motorcycle gang. The passengers then take refuge in an abandoned scrap yard. When their defense against the gang weakens and their numbers dwindle they must do the unthinkable go on the offense.
Our read: Exit Speed (2008) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · thriller · music entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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