2017 · action · thriller · crime
First Kill
Directed by Steven C. Miller1h 37m2017
A police chief tries to solve a kidnapping that involves a bank robber holding a young boy hostage.
Our read: First Kill (2017) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded action · thriller · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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