Unlocked
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
Sombre, breathless, measured action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →After failing to apprehend the terrorist behind a Paris attack that claimed dozens of lives, CIA agent Alice Racine is forced to live in London as a caseworker. Her mentor unexpectedly calls her back into action when the CIA discovers that another attack is imminent. Alice soon learns that the classified information she's uncovered has been compromised...
Our read · Unlocked (2017) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · thriller · spy entry — measured 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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The shape of Unlocked
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a brisk London bio-terror thriller with Noomi Rapace running the show.”
Skip it tonight — Predictable spy double-crosses and a TV-movie feel will leave you restless.
The reading.
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.
Eight films that read most like this one.
Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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