2016 · crime · drama · thriller
Hacker
Directed by Akan Satayev1h 35m2016
Alex, an immigrant from Ukraine comes to Canada and becomes involved with an online criminal organization called Darkweb. What starts off as a way to help his parents financially, soon becomes a personal vendetta against the entire banking system, when his mother is fired from her job at the bank
Our read: Hacker (2016) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded crime · drama · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured crime / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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