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2016 · action · comedy · crime

Keanu

Directed by Peter Atencio1h 40m2016
ElsewhereIMDb6.254kRT78%Metacritic63
  • warm
  • kinetic
  • redemptive
  • funny
Movie DNA

Warm, breathless, measured action / comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Friends hatch a plot to retrieve a stolen cat by posing as drug dealers for a street gang.

Our read · Keanu (2016) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded action · comedy · crime entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive 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 absurd Key and Peele action comedy built around the world's cutest kitten.

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

Skip it tonightYou hate R-rated stoner-adjacent humor, strip clubs, or cartoon gunplay.

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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