2013 · action · crime · drama
Java Heat
Directed by Conor Allyn1h 44m2013
An American in Indonesia teams up with a Muslim cop to track down a terrorist.
Our read: Java Heat (2013) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · crime · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured action / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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