1994 · thriller · sci-fi · action
Timecop
Directed by Peter Hyams1h 38m1994
In 2004, an officer for a security agency that regulates time travel must fend for his life against a shady politician who has a tie to his past.
Our read: Timecop (1994) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive thriller · sci-fi · action entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme thriller / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- cold
- twisty
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