1992 · action · adventure · thriller
Passenger 57
Directed by Kevin Hooks1h 24m1992
Airline security specialist John Cutter, finally returning to the job after his wife's death, finds himself stuck on a flight being hijacked by notorious terrorist Charles Rane. Unfortunately for the terrorists, they're also stuck with him.
Our read: Passenger 57 (1992) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · adventure · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / adventure, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- epic-stakes
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