1991 · adventure · sci-fi · action
The Rocketeer
Directed by Joe Johnston1h 48m1991
A stunt pilot comes across a prototype jetpack that gives him the ability to fly. However, evil forces of the world also want this jetpack at any cost.
Our read: The Rocketeer (1991) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive adventure · sci-fi · action entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme adventure / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- kinetic
- intense
- epic-stakes
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