2021 · action · drama · thriller
The Marksman
Directed by Robert Lorenz1h 48m2021
Jim Hanson’s quiet life is suddenly disturbed by two people crossing the US/Mexico border – a woman and her young son – desperate to flee a Mexican cartel. After a shootout leaves the mother dead, Jim becomes the boy’s reluctant defender. He embraces his role as Miguel’s protector and will stop at nothing to get him to safety, as they go on the run from the relentless assassins.
Our read: The Marksman (2021) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded action · drama · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
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