2022 · fantasy · action · adventure
Troll
Directed by Roar Uthaug1h 44m2022
When an explosion in the Norwegian mountains awakens an ancient troll, officials appoint a fearless paleontologist to stop it from wreaking deadly havoc.
Our read: Troll (2022) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive fantasy · action · adventure entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured fantasy / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
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- intense
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