2015 · crime · drama · thriller
Saving Mr. Wu
Directed by Ding Sheng1h 46m2015
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.
Sombre, breathless, measured crime / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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