2014 · drama · thriller · music
The Kid
Directed by Daniel Monzón2h 16m2014
Two youths, Niño and Compi, enter the world of drug smuggling in the Strait of Gibraltar; while two police officers, Jesús and Eva, try to eradicate the contraband.
Our read: The Kid (2014) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · thriller · music entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
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