2024 · drama · action · thriller
Underdog
Directed by Gerardo Dorantes1h 38m2024
Two Tarahumara brothers, with a deep spiritual connection and a fervent desire to become the best ultramarathon runners in the world, will see their dreams shattered when they are violently recruited by a dangerous cartel as drug runners, putting their family at risk and forcing them to join forces to finally take control of their own destiny.
Our read: Underdog (2024) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded drama · action · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme drama / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
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- extreme
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