2017 · action · crime · thriller
Paradox
Directed by Wilson Yip1h 41m2017
When a Hong Kong police negotiator is informed about the sudden disappearance of his 16-year-old daughter in Thailand, he travels there to search for her whereabouts.
Our read: Paradox (2017) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded action · crime · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- cold
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