2016 · action · crime
Operation Mekong
Directed by Dante Lam Chiu-yin2h 4m2016
The Chinese government launches a daring operation to arrest a violent drug cartel following the discovery of thirteen Chinese crew members' bodies on two ships sailing through the Mekong River.
Our read: Operation Mekong (2016) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · crime entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
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