2008 · action · thriller · crime
Kill Switch
Directed by Jeff F. King1h 32m2008
A troubled and violent detective investigates a series of serial killer murders in Memphis, Tennessee.
Our read: Kill Switch (2008) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · thriller · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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