1977 · crime · thriller · action
Rolling Thunder
Directed by John Flynn1h 40m1977
A Vietnam veteran, Charles Rane, returns home after years in a POW camp and is treated as a hero. He has a hard time adjusting, and things go badly. A movie about the walking dead, before that meant just flesh-eating zombies.
Our read: Rolling Thunder (1977) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded crime · thriller · action entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme crime / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- bleak
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“You want a grim seventies vet-revenge spiral that refuses catharsis.”
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