2:22
- sombre
- brisk
- cold
Sombre, breathless, measured thriller / heist, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →The plan was easy; the job was not. On a snowy night a tight crew of four criminals plan to pull off a routine heist. When things go horribly wrong, friendship, loyalty and trust are pushed to the limit.
Our read · 2:22 (2008) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded thriller · heist entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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