Saving Mr. Wu
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
Sombre, breathless, measured crime / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Mr. Wu, a Hong Kong movie star, is kidnapped in Beijing by Zhang Hua's gang. The police quickly form a task force and begin the search, ignoring that detectives in charge have only twenty hours before the deadline.
Our read · Saving Mr. Wu (2015) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded crime · drama · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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