Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
- epic-stakes
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →The world’s most lethal odd couple – bodyguard Michael Bryce and hitman Darius Kincaid – are back on another life-threatening mission. Still unlicensed and under scrutiny, Bryce is forced into action by Darius's even more volatile wife, the infamous international con artist Sonia Kincaid. As Bryce is driven over the edge by his two most dangerous protectees, the trio get in over their heads in a global plot and soon find that they are all that stand between Europe and a vengeful and powerful madman.
Our read · Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · comedy · crime entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent 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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