Films like Mayhem.
Mayhem (2017) reads as Sombre, breathless, extreme action / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold. 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.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the relentless forward drive — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the relentless forward drive — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the relentless forward drive — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the relentless forward drive — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the relentless forward drive and the chilly detachment; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the relentless forward drive — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the relentless forward drive and the chilly detachment; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the relentless forward drive; trades toward a bone-dry seriousness.

Keeps the chilly detachment and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
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