2012 · action · drama · survival
The Tower
Directed by Kim Ji-hoon2h 1m2012
Tower Sky, a luxurious building complex, has organised a lavish Christmas party for its VIP guests. However, things go awry when a fire breaks out and thousands of lives are endangered.
Our read: The Tower (2012) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · drama · survival entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
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