Piranha Hunt (2006) poster
2006 · action · thriller · crime

Piranha Hunt

Directed by Andrey Kavun2h 5m2006
ElsewhereIMDb6.02k
  • sombre
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • cold
Movie DNA

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

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Agent of special department "Piranha" Kirill Mazur and his colleague Olga go to the far north with the assignment to liquidate an underwater secret weapon lab in the guise of a mutual vacation. All of a sudden, they find themselves in the world where civilization laws are forgotten, and this deadly weapons are kept by gangsters who are controlled by a new "master of taiga" Prohor, whose leisure time is spent hunting at humans. Mazur didn't know that he would have to trade his familiar gun for a hand-made bone knife, and save his companion and himself instead of saving the world. For them, this safari in northern forests would be no less dangerous as for the live targets.

Our read · Piranha Hunt (2006) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · thriller · crime entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold 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 gritty Russian action with secret agents vs taiga gangsters.

ends triumphantyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 15attention 3/5feels its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violence

Skip it tonightYou want quick Hollywood thrills or hate long cold wilderness setups.

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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