2019 · action · war · drama
Mosul
Directed by Matthew Michael Carnahan1h 42m2019
When ISIS took their homes, families and city, one group of men fought to take it all back. Based on true events, this is the story of the Nineveh SWAT team, a renegade police unit who waged a guerrilla operation against ISIS in a desperate struggle to save their home city of Mosul.
Our read: Mosul (2019) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded action · war · drama entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / war, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
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