2023 · thriller · action · adventure
Retribution
Directed by Nimród Antal1h 31m2023
When a mysterious caller plants a bomb under his car seat, a bank executive begins a high-speed chase across the city to complete a specific series of tasks — all with his kids trapped in the back seat.
Our read: Retribution (2023) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded thriller · action · adventure entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme thriller / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- epic-stakes
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“You want a lean Neeson ticking-clock chase with zero setup patience required.”
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