2007 · action · thriller · crime
Until Death
Directed by Simon Fellows1h 46m2007
Anthony Stowe is a dirty cop who is hooked on heroin—and everyone hates him. After a serious accident, he is placed into an induced coma, but emerges from it a better person who wants to put things right.
Our read: Until Death (2007) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded action · thriller · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- cold
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