2016 · action · adventure · comedy
Railroad Tigers
Directed by Ding Sheng2h 4m2016
A railroad worker in China in 1941 leads a team of freedom fighters against the Japanese in order to get food for the poor.
Our read: Railroad Tigers (2016) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded action · adventure · comedy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured action / adventure, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
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