2011 · action · thriller
The Hit List
Directed by William Kaufman1h 30m2011
A disgruntled man creates a hit list with a stranger during a drunken night out and must then race to try to save those he marked for extermination as the bodies begin to pile up and all fingers point to him.
Our read: The Hit List (2011) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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