2005 · action · crime · drama
Shadowboxer
Directed by Lee Daniels1h 33m2005
Mikey and Rose are professional assassins. They are also lovers, and once upon a time Rose also knew Mikey's father. During an elaborate hit job for a malicious gangster, Rose fails to kill the main target, the gangster's pregnant girlfriend. Instead, she delivers her baby and convinces Mikey to help her protect them both. As Rose weakens from cancer, Mikey becomes breadwinner for this unusual family. But tranquility will not last.
Our read: Shadowboxer (2005) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive action · crime · drama entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme action / crime, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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