2021 · action · adventure · thriller
The King's Man
Directed by Matthew Vaughn2h 11m2021
As a collection of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them.
Our read: The King's Man (2021) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded action · adventure · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / adventure, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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