2024 · drama · action
The Convert
Directed by Lee Tamahori1h 59m2024
Munro, a soldier turned lay preacher, comes to New Zealand to minister to the first British colonists, but he is converted by the powerful chief Maianui to serve a different purpose.
Our read: The Convert (2024) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · action entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme drama / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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“You want colonial New Zealand tension told through shifting loyalties and land.”
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