2016 · thriller · drama · action
Term Life
Directed by Peter Billingsley1h 33m2016
If Nick Barrow can stay alive for 21 days, he'll die happy. Everyone Nick knows wants him dead; Mob bosses, contract killers, and dirty cops. Performing the last act of a desperate man, Nick takes out a million dollar insurance policy on himself, payable to his estranged daughter. The problem? The policy doesn't take effect for 21 days. Nick knows they'll be lucky to be alive for twenty-one hours.
Our read: Term Life (2016) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded thriller · drama · action entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured thriller / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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