1998 · action · crime · drama
The Negotiator
Directed by F. Gary Gray2h 20m1998
The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in what he believes is an elaborate conspiracy. Thinking there's evidence in the Internal Affairs offices that might clear him, he takes everyone in the office hostage and demands that another well-known negotiator be brought in to handle the situation and secretly investigate the conspiracy.
Our read: The Negotiator (1998) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded action · crime · drama entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
- twisty
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