2025 · action · comedy · thriller
Under Fire
Directed by Steven C. Miller1h 35m2025
Story unfolds in the scorching heat of the Mexico border, where rival drug dealers Griff and Abbott arrive at a remote drop point for a routine drug deal. But when the exchange goes down, both reveal undercover badges — Griff is FBI, Abbott is DEA — and neither knew they were working the same case.
Our read: Under Fire (2025) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · comedy · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
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