2015 · thriller · drama · survival
Retribution
Directed by Dani de la Torre1h 41m2015
While Carlos, a banking executive, takes his two kids to school in his car, he gets a phone call telling him that there is a bomb under the seats and he must to gather a large amount of money; otherwise, his car will blow up.
Our read: Retribution (2015) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded thriller · drama · survival entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme thriller / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
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