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Vigilance

2014 · 89 min

A scrappy, tense chase through a hostile city, blending amateur filmmaking with sudden violence and a constant sense of being out of your depth.

Directed by: Paul de Vrijer
Genres: Action
Starring: Rik Sinkeldam, Chandler Bullock, Eli Thorne

Overview: After a vicious mugging, a troubled film student gathers an amateur film crew and travels to Amsterdam to find a mysterious masked vigilante, however, the crew gets caught in the crossfire between the super hero and his villains and must do everything to escape this wicked city alive.

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Directed by: Paul de Vrijer
Genres: Action
Starring: Rik Sinkeldam, Chandler Bullock, Eli Thorne

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Tone: tensestrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing: brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: obsession
survival
violence
identity
friendship
Places: big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: found footage
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language strong
Violence strong
Sex mild

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Action	7
Horror	3
Humour	2
Realism	5
Romance	1
Tension	7
Darkness	7
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	5

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Genres: action
Directed by: Paul de Vrijer
Written by: Rik Sinkeldam, Paul de Vrijer
Starring: Rik Sinkeldam, Chandler Bullock, Eli Thorne, Claire Schuyffel
Runtime: 89 min
Languages: English

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