2012 · thriller · action · survival
Tower Block
Directed by Ronnie Thompson, James Nunn1h 30m2012
A year after witnessing a murder, residents of Tower Block 31 find themselves being picked off by a sniper, pitting those lucky enough to be alive into a battle for survival.
Our read: Tower Block (2012) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded thriller · action · survival entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme thriller / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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