2025 · action · war · thriller
Prisoner of War
Directed by Louis Mandylor1h 53m2025
British RAF Wing Commander James Wright is captured by the Japanese during WWII and forced to fight in brutal hand-to-hand combat. The Japanese soldiers get more than they bargained for when Wright’s years of martial arts training in Hong Kong prove him to be a formidable opponent.
Our read: Prisoner of War (2025) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded action · war · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / war, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
- twisty
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