VFW
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →A typical night for veterans at a VFW turns into an all-out battle for survival when a desperate teen runs into the bar with a bag of stolen drugs. When a gang of violent punks come looking for her, the vets use every weapon at their disposal to protect the girl and themselves from an unrelenting attack.
Our read · VFW (2019) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · crime · horror entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of VFW
What watching it is actually like.
“You want grizzled vets in a neon siege movie with buckets of practical gore.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if splatter, drug gangs, and teen peril will ruin your night.
The reading.
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