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2010 · action · adventure · crime · mystery

The Losers

Directed by Sylvain White1h 37m2010
ElsewhereIMDb6.2109kRT47%Metacritic44
  • heavy
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • cold
  • twisty
  • epic-stakes
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Heavy, breathless, extreme action / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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On a mission deep in the Bolivian jungle, a team of elite commandos finds itself on the receiving end of a lethal betrayal. Now presumed dead, the men join forces with a mysterious operative named Aisha to hunt down their enemy and even the score.

Our read · The Losers (2010) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive action · adventure · crime entry — extreme in intensity, epic-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 a breezy comic-book team-up with banter and betrayal revenge.

ends triumphantyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 5attention 2/5breezes bysubtitles: partial
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
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Skip it tonightYou expect coherent plotting or anything beyond disposable popcorn action.

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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