2014 · action · drama · thriller
Sabotage
Directed by David Ayer1h 50m2014
John 'Breacher' Wharton leads an elite DEA task force that takes on the world's deadliest drug cartels. When the team successfully executes a high-stakes raid on a cartel safe house, they think their work is done – until, one-by-one, the team members mysteriously start to be eliminated. As the body count rises, everyone is a suspect.
Our read: Sabotage (2014) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded action · drama · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
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