Films like Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses.

Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses (2014) reads as Sombre, breathless, measured action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Proud Mary (2018) poster
1. Proud Mary2018

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Bad Ass (2012) poster
2. Bad Ass2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Collide (2016) poster
3. Collide2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Eliminators (2016) poster
4. Eliminators2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Braven (2018) poster
5. Braven2018

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Born to Race (2011) poster
6. Born to Race2011

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Tactical Force (2011) poster
7. Tactical Force2011

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Wrong Side of Town (2010) poster
8. Wrong Side of Town2010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Marine 4: Moving Target (2015) poster
9. The Marine 4: Moving Target2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a chilly detachment.

Damage (2009) poster
10. Damage2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Hunter's Prayer (2017) poster
11. The Hunter's Prayer2017

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Into the Grizzly Maze (2015) poster
12. Into the Grizzly Maze2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

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