2005 · sci-fi · action · space-opera
Serenity
Directed by Joss Whedon1h 59m2005
When the renegade crew of Serenity agrees to hide a fugitive on their ship, they find themselves in an action-packed battle between the relentless military might of a totalitarian regime who will destroy anything – or anyone – to get the girl back and the bloodthirsty creatures who roam the uncharted areas of space. But... the greatest danger of all may be on their ship.
Our read: Serenity (2005) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive sci-fi · action · space-opera entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme sci-fi / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- kinetic
- intense
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