2007 · thriller · crime
Triangle
Directed by Tsui Hark, Ringo Lam Ling-Tung, Johnnie To1h 33m2007
Life has not been kind to drinking buddies Sam, Fai, and Mok as they struggle to make ends meet, until one stormy evening when a mysterious old man appears before them in a bar with a 'get rich quick' scheme: an ancient treasure buried under a high-security government building.
Our read: Triangle (2007) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded thriller · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured thriller / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- cold
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