7 Minutes (2014) poster
2014 · crime · drama · thriller · heist

7 Minutes

Directed by Jay Martin1h 32m2014
ElsewhereIMDb5.03kRT24%Metacritic35
  • sombre
  • kinetic
  • intense
  • cold
Movie DNA

Sombre, breathless, measured crime / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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When three young criminals lose a stash of drugs, they end up owing money to a ruthless drug lord. With time running out, they plan a daring robbery to raise the cash to settle the debt.

Our read · 7 Minutes (2014) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded crime · drama · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a gritty crime thriller where a desperate robbery spirals out of control.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakena rollercoastergrips by minute 5attention 3/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencedrug use

Skip it tonightSkip if intense robbery-gone-wrong stories or drug-debt tension will stress you.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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