1989 · action · thriller · comedy
Tango & Cash
Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky1h 44m1989
Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash are two successful narcotics detectives who can't stand each other. Crime lord Yves Perret, furious at the loss of income they have caused him, plots an elaborate revenge against them.
Our read: Tango & Cash (1989) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded action · thriller · comedy entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- cold
- twisty
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