2019 · action · thriller · crime
Paradise Beach
Directed by Xavier Durringer1h 33m2019
A team of former robbers arrived at Paradise: Phuket, southern Thailand. Now traders, they are happy days. Until the day when the devil arrives: Mehdi, sentenced to 15 years in prison during the robbery, comes to recover his share of the cake.
Our read: Paradise Beach (2019) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · thriller · crime entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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