2025 · thriller · action · adventure
Turbulence
Directed by Claudio Fäh1h 31m2025
Young married couple Zach and Emmy decide to take a hot air balloon trip across the Italian Dolomites to rekindle their relationship. When they and pilot Harry are joined by a third passenger, Julia, events unfold in ways they could never imagine five thousand meters in the air.
Our read: Turbulence (2025) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive thriller · action · adventure entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme thriller / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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