2016 · drama · mystery · crime
Rage
Directed by Sang-il Lee2h 22m2016
A man brutally murders a married couple and leaves the word “ikari” (“rage”) written with their blood. The killer undergoes plastic surgery and flees. At three different locations in Japan, a male stranger appears. People suspect that the stranger might be the murderer.
Our read: Rage (2016) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded drama · mystery · crime entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme drama / mystery, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- intense
- twisty
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