2013 · action · crime · survival
Getaway
Directed by Courtney Solomon1h 30m2013
Former race car driver Brent Magna is pitted against the clock. Desperately trying to save the life of his kidnapped wife, Brent commandeers a custom Ford Shelby GT500 Super Snake, taking it and its unwitting owner on a high-speed race against time, at the command of the mysterious villain holding his wife hostage.
Our read: Getaway (2013) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · crime · survival entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured action / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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