2016 · action · comedy · spy
Grimsby
Directed by Louis Leterrier1h 23m2016
Wrongfully accused and on the run, a top MI6 assassin joins forces with his long-lost, football hooligan brother to save the world from a sinister plot.
Our read: Grimsby (2016) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded action · comedy · spy entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured action / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- kinetic
- intense
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