Gun
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
Sombre, breathless, measured action / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →The Detroit Police launches a full-scale war against gun runners with the cooperation of the Feds and target a criminal named Rich. When a gun exchange goes bad and Rich’s old friend Angel, steps up big time and saves his life, they form a bond that makes his supplier and lover, Gabriella paranoid. But there is a snitch in the group and Gabriella’s biggest deal goes bad only to have an even bigger secret revealed, one that rocks Rich to his core.
Our read · Gun (2010) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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