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2015 · action · crime · mystery · thriller

Survivor

Directed by James McTeigue1h 36m2015
ElsewhereIMDb5.737kRT8%Metacritic28
  • heavy
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • cold
  • twisty
Movie DNA

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

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A Foreign Service Officer in London tries to prevent a terrorist attack set to hit New York, but is forced to go on the run when she is framed for crimes she did not commit.

Our read · Survivor (2015) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive action · crime · mystery 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 breezy Milla-versus-Brosnan spy chase comfort food with Times Square stakes.

ends triumphantyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 6attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencejump scares

Skip it tonightSkip if predictable terrorism thrillers or cheap 9/11 flashbacks offend you.

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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