2008 · crime · drama · thriller
Killshot
Directed by John Madden1h 35m2008
Beautiful Carmen Colson and her ironworker husband Wayne are placed in the Federal Witness Protection program after witnessing an "incident". Thinking they are at last safe, they are targeted by an experienced hit man and a psychopathic young upstart killer.
Our read: Killshot (2008) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded crime · drama · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured crime / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- cold
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“You want lean Elmore Leonard witness-protection dread with Mickey Rourke menace.”
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