2010 · comedy · action · drama
Super
Directed by James Gunn1h 36m2010
After his wife falls under the influence of a drug dealer, an everyday guy transforms himself into Crimson Bolt, a superhero with the best intentions, though he lacks for heroic skills.
Our read: Super (2010) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive comedy · action · drama entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, breathless, extreme comedy / action, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- cold
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