2006 · action · survival · heist
The Marine
Directed by John Bonito1h 32m2006
A group of diamond thieves on the run kidnap the wife of a recently discharged marine who goes on a chase through the South Carolinian wilderness to retrieve her.
Our read: The Marine (2006) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded action · survival · heist entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured action / survival, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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