2018 · crime · action · thriller
The Negotiation
Directed by Lee Jong-suk1h 54m2018
An ace crisis negotiator attempts to figure out the real motivation of a man who has kidnapped two people and crack his calm demeanour.
Our read: The Negotiation (2018) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded crime · action · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured crime / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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