U.S. Marshals
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
- twisty
Heavy, breathless, extreme thriller / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a plane load of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane crashes spectacularly, and Mark Sheridan escapes. But when Diplomatic Security Agent John Royce is assigned to help Gerard recapture Sheridan, it becomes clear that Sheridan is more than just another murderer.
Our read · U.S. Marshals (1998) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded thriller · crime · action 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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