2016 · action · comedy · mystery
War on Everyone
Directed by John Michael McDonagh1h 38m2016
Two corrupt cops in New Mexico set out to blackmail and frame every criminal unfortunate enough to cross their path. Things take a sinister turn, however, when they try to intimidate someone who is more dangerous than they are. Or is he?
Our read: War on Everyone (2016) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive action · comedy · mystery entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured action / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
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