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2022 · action · adventure · thriller

Blackout

Directed by Sam Macaroni1h 21m2022
ElsewhereIMDb3.95k
  • sombre
  • kinetic
  • intense
  • cold
Movie DNA

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

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A man wakes in a hospital with no memory, and quickly finds himself on the run in a locked down hospital with the Cartel on his tail.

Our read · Blackout (2022) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · adventure · thriller entry — measured 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 a no-memory man fighting cartel in a locked-down hospital.

ends unsettlingyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 4attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
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Skip it tonightYou want clever plotting or memorable characters.

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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