2020 · thriller · action · crime
Honest Thief
Directed by Mark Williams1h 39m2020
A bank robber tries to turn himself in because he's falling in love and wants to live an honest life...but when he realizes the Feds are more corrupt than him, he must fight back to clear his name.
Our read: Honest Thief (2020) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded thriller · action · crime entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme thriller / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
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