1988 · action · crime · revenge
Red Heat
Directed by Walter Hill1h 44m1988
A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord who killed his partner and fled the country.
Our read: Red Heat (1988) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded action · crime · revenge entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- cold
- twisty
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