Bullet to the Head (2012) poster
2012 · action · crime · thriller

Bullet to the Head

Directed by Walter Hill1h 32m2012
ElsewhereIMDb5.754kRT44%Metacritic48
  • heavy
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • cold
  • twisty
Movie DNA

Heavy, breathless, extreme action / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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After watching their respective partners die, a cop and a hitman form an alliance in order to bring down their common enemy.

Our read · Bullet to the Head (2012) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded action · crime · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-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 lean Walter Hill action with Stallone and zero pretense tonight.

ends triumphantyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips from the openattention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violence

Skip it tonightYou need fresh plotting or hate gruff buddy-cop shootouts after midnight.

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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