2006 · action · thriller · crime
Fatal Contact
Directed by Dennis Law Sau-Yiu1h 50m2006
A young man learns the fighting techniques of Sanda from a coach. The two become best friends as the young man prepares to enter an underground tournament, competing against some of the top fighters of the world.
Our read: Fatal Contact (2006) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · thriller · crime entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- cold
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