2021 · action · thriller · crime
Jolt
Directed by Tanya Wexler1h 31m2021
A bouncer with an anger management problem goes on a furious and resentful rampage after the murder of a friend.
Our read: Jolt (2021) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded action · thriller · crime entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
- twisty
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