2011 · action · adventure · thriller
Killer Elite
Directed by Gary McKendry1h 56m2011
Based on a shocking true story, Killer Elite pits two of the world’s most elite operatives—Danny, an ex-special ops agent and Hunter, his longtime mentor—against the cunning leader of a secret military society. Covering the globe from Australia to Paris, London and the Middle East, Danny and Hunter are plunged into a highly dangerous game of cat and mouse—where the predators become the prey.
Our read: Killer Elite (2011) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded action · adventure · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / adventure, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- epic-stakes
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