1993 · action · thriller · crime
Hard Target
Directed by John Woo1h 39m1993
When a woman's father goes missing, she enlists a local to aid in her search. The pair soon discover that her father has died at the hands of a wealthy sportsman who hunts homeless men as a form of recreation.
Our read: Hard Target (1993) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded action · thriller · crime entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
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