2020 · thriller · crime · action
Shorta
Directed by Anders Ølholm, Frederik Louis Hviid1h 48m2020
The exact details of what took place while Talib Ben Hassi was in police custody remain unclear. Police officers Jens and Mike are on routine patrol in Svalegården's ghetto when news of Talib's death comes in over the radio, igniting uncontrollable, pent-up rage in the ghetto's youth, who lust for revenge. Suddenly, the two officers find themselves fair game and must fight tooth and claw to find a way out.
Our read: Shorta (2020) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded thriller · crime · action entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme thriller / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
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