2024 · action · thriller
Lights Out
Directed by Christian Sesma1h 30m2024
A drifting ex-soldier turns underground fighter with the help of a just-released ex-con, pitting him against corrupt cops and hired killers now gunning for him and all those he cares about.
Our read: Lights Out (2024) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded action · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- cold
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