2016 · action · adventure · crime
Skiptrace
Directed by Renny Harlin1h 47m2016
A detective from Hong Kong teams up with an American gambler to battle against a notorious Chinese criminal.
Our read: Skiptrace (2016) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded action · adventure · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured action / adventure, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
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“You want Jackie Chan and Johnny Knoxville as a mismatched action-comedy duo.”
Skip it tonight — You want coherent plotting; this is goofy stunt filler with thin stakes.
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