2006 · action · thriller · spy
The Detonator
Directed by Leong Po-Chih1h 31m2006
Sonni Griffith, a top US Secret Agent must protect a witness as he crosses Europe.
Our read: The Detonator (2006) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · thriller · spy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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