2012 · action · crime · thriller
Stolen
Directed by Simon West1h 36m2012
Master thief Will Montgomery is just released from the State penitentiary after serving a 10 year sentence, is contacted by Vincent, his ex comrade in crime, who is holding Will’s teenage daughter ransom in a hijacked taxi cab. Vincent will only surrender her when Will reveals the whereabouts of the 20 million dollars he contrived to conceal from their last robbery.
Our read: Stolen (2012) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded action · crime · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- cold
- twisty
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