2014 · thriller · war · adventure
The Taking of Tiger Mountain
Directed by Tsui Hark2h 21m2014
Yang Zirong disguises himself as a bandit to infiltrate and destroy a bandit group. He joins hands with a hostage, and together, they fight against the warlord, Hawk.
Our read: The Taking of Tiger Mountain (2014) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive thriller · war · adventure entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme thriller / war, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- cold
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