Homefront (2013) poster
2013 · action · thriller · spy

Homefront

Directed by Gary Fleder1h 40m2013
ElsewhereIMDb6.5140kRT42%Metacritic40
  • sombre
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • twisty
Movie DNA

Sombre, breathless, extreme action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Phil Broker, a retired DEA agent, leads a quiet life with his daughter Maddy, until a school bullying incident draws them into a conflict with Morgan “Gator” Bodine, a local crime boss.

Our read · Homefront (2013) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · thriller · spy 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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You want a lean dad-with-a-past action flick under two hours.

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

Skip it tonightYou cannot stomach a child endangered in a meth-country brawl.

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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