2017 · action · adventure · crime
Extortion
Directed by Phil Volken1h 48m2017
A doctor desperately tries to save his wife and their 5 year old son after their vacation in the Bahamas takes an unexpected turn.
Our read: Extortion (2017) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · adventure · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured action / adventure, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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