2014 · thriller · action · sci-fi
The Anomaly
Directed by Noel Clarke1h 37m2014
A former soldier is taken captive and awakens in the back of a van where he learns that he only has less than 10 minutes to figure out how he got there.
Our read: The Anomaly (2014) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive thriller · action · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured thriller / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
- cold
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