2018 · action · war
Operation Red Sea
Directed by Dante Lam Chiu-yin2h 18m2018
A squad of the Jiaolong Commando Unit - Sea Dragon, a spec ops team of the Chinese Navy, carries out a hostage rescue operation in the nation of Yewaire, on the Arabian Peninsula, and fiercely fights against local rebel groups and Zaka, a terrorist organization.
Our read: Operation Red Sea (2018) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · war entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / war, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
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