2017 · action · thriller · spy
Unlocked
Directed by Michael Apted1h 38m2017
After failing to apprehend the terrorist behind a Paris attack that claimed dozens of lives, CIA agent Alice Racine is forced to live in London as a caseworker. Her mentor unexpectedly calls her back into action when the CIA discovers that another attack is imminent. Alice soon learns that the classified information she's uncovered has been compromised...
Our read: Unlocked (2017) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · thriller · spy entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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