2014 · crime · action · thriller
The November Man
Directed by Roger Donaldson1h 48m2014
An ex-CIA operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high level CIA officials and the Russian president-elect.
Our read: The November Man (2014) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded crime · action · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme crime / action, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- cold
- twisty
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