2016 · action · adventure · comedy
The Do-Over
Directed by Steven Brill1h 48m2016
The life of a bank manager is turned upside down when a friend from his past manipulates him into faking his own death and taking off on an adventure.
Our read: The Do-Over (2016) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded action · adventure · comedy entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured action / adventure, grounded in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- epic-stakes
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