2005 · action · comedy · crime
The Man
Directed by Les Mayfield1h 23m2005
A case of mistaken identity forces a Federal agent and a dental supply salesman to team up as they speed through the streets of Detroit to pull off a sting operation and solve the murder of the agent's former partner.
Our read: The Man (2005) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded action · comedy · crime entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured action / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
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