Exit Protocol (2025) poster
2025 · action · thriller

Exit Protocol

Directed by Shane Dax Taylor1h 24m2025
ElsewhereIMDb3.6379
  • heavy
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • cold
Movie DNA

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

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An assassin whose specialty is killing other assassins trying to get out of the business decides to try to get out himself and must then team up with his former mark to escape the hired killers now gunning for them both.

Our read · Exit Protocol (2025) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded action · thriller 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 lean assassin action with double-crosses, chases and gunfights.

ends triumphantyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 5attention 3/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violence

Skip it tonightYou should skip if you dislike violent action or B-movie shootouts.

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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