2017 · action · thriller · spy
Stratton
Directed by Simon West1h 34m2017
A British Special Boat Service commando tracks down an international terrorist cell.
Our read: Stratton (2017) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · thriller · spy entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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