2016 · thriller · survival
Take Down
Directed by Jim Gillespie1h 47m2016
Sons and daughters of international billionaires are sent to an boot camp where they are taught basic survival skills in hopes it will teach them responsibility. When they are taken hostage and taken for ransom by kidnappers, they will need to utilize every skill they learned to survive.
Our read: Take Down (2016) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded thriller · survival entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured thriller / survival, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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