2016 · action · crime · drama
RE:BORN
Directed by Yuji Shimomura1h 41m2016
A former special forces operative struggling to contain the destructive impulses of his past goes on a rampage against a squad of ruthless assassins.
Our read: RE:BORN (2016) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · crime · drama entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- cold
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