2012 · action · crime · fantasy
The Four
Directed by Janet Chun Siu-Chun, Gordon Chan1h 58m2012
An undercover agent is assigned by his corrupt chief to infiltrate a rival department and sabotage their investigation of counterfeit currency. What he discovers is the counterfeiter's real plan. To overthrow the capital. Not by flooding it with funny money, but with an army of undead.
Our read: The Four (2012) reads as a neutral, breathless, surreal action · crime · fantasy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured action / crime, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- kinetic
- inventive
- twisty
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