2008 · action · thriller · crime
Pistol Whipped
Directed by Roel Reiné1h 39m2008
Steven Seagal stars in this gritty, no-holds barred action film as an elite ex-cop with a gambling problem and a mountain of debt. When a mysterious man offers to clear his debts in exchange for the assassination of the city's most notorious gangsters, he make s decision that will change his life - forever.
Our read: Pistol Whipped (2008) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · thriller · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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