2019 · action · war · adventure
Torpedo: U-235
Directed by Sven Huybrechts1h 50m2019
World War II: Resistance fighters accept a suicide mission to deliver a stolen Nazi submarine carrying atomic uranium. Hunted by Hitler’s army, the crew must outwit the German Navy to bring the cargo safely to America.
Our read: Torpedo: U-235 (2019) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · war · adventure entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured action / war, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
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