2017 · action · crime · adventure
Shock Wave
Directed by Herman Yau1h 59m2017
When a terrorist who specializes in explosives takes hold of an underground tunnel, he threatens to kill hostages if his demands are not met.
Our read: Shock Wave (2017) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · crime · adventure entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured action / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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