2019 · action · adventure · thriller
Primal
Directed by Nick Powell1h 37m2019
A big-game hunter for zoos books passage on a Greek shipping freighter with a fresh haul of exotic and deadly animals from the Amazon, including a rare white Jaguar – along with a political assassin being extradited to the U.S in secret. Two days into the journey, the assassin escapes and releases the captive animals, throwing the ship into chaos.
Our read: Primal (2019) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive action · adventure · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured action / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- kinetic
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- cold
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