2013 · action · thriller · spy
Homefront
Directed by Gary Fleder1h 40m2013
Phil Broker, a retired DEA agent, leads a quiet life with his daughter Maddy, until a school bullying incident draws them into a conflict with Morgan “Gator” Bodine, a local crime boss.
Our read: Homefront (2013) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · thriller · spy entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
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