2012 · action · adventure · thriller
Maximum Conviction
Directed by Keoni Waxman1h 38m2012
When former black ops operative Cross and his partner Manning are assigned to decommission an old prison, they must oversee the arrival of two mysterious female prisoners. Before long, an elite force of mercenaries assault the prison in search of the new arrivals. As the true identities of the women are revealed, Cross realizes he's caught in the middle of something far bigger than he had imagined.
Our read: Maximum Conviction (2012) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded action · adventure · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured action / adventure, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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