2008 · action · thriller · revenge
The Art of War II: Betrayal
Directed by Josef Rusnak1h 43m2008
Agent Neil Shaw is called out of retirement and finds himself in the midst of a plot to assassinate several leading Senators with himself set-up to take the rap for a recent killing
Our read: The Art of War II: Betrayal (2008) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded action · thriller · revenge entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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