2016 · thriller · action · adventure
Mojave
Directed by William Monahan1h 33m2016
A suicidal artist goes into the desert, where he finds his doppelgänger, a homicidal drifter.
Our read: Mojave (2016) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive thriller · action · adventure entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured thriller / action, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- intense
- bleak
- cold
- intimate
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