2013 · action · thriller · crime
Firestorm
Directed by Alan Yuen Kam-Lun1h 45m2013
Hong Kong. When Cao Nan and his group of thieves rob an armored car in broad daylight, they don't hesitate to murder innocent people on the run. Lui Ming Chit, a veteran police inspector, is forced to use sinister tactics to catch them.
Our read: Firestorm (2013) 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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