2006 · action · survival · martial-arts
Second in Command
Directed by Simon Fellows1h 31m2006
Armed insurgents attempt a coup d'etat in a troubled Eastern European country, and the president flees to the U.S. embassy for protection. When the U.S. ambassador is murdered by the ruthless and gun-happy rebels, it comes down to the second-in-command of the embassy, Sam Keenan, played by Belgian kickboxer Jean-Claude Van Damme, to use his amazing martial arts technique to defend the besieged.
Our read: Second in Command (2006) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · survival · martial-arts entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured action / survival, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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