2019 · action · crime · thriller
Lucky Day
Directed by Roger Avary1h 39m2019
Red, a safe cracker who has just been released from prison, is trying to hold his family together as his past catches up with him in the form of Luc, a psychopathic contract killer who's seeking revenge for the death of his brother.
Our read: Lucky Day (2019) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive action · crime · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / crime, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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