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Scorched Earth (2024)

Jul 18, 2024 Crime, Thriller 1h 41m
User Score
65%
10 votes
Internet Movie Database
68%

Overview

Professional criminal Trojan returns to Berlin in search of a new job after a failed coup. He cannot refuse the lucrative offer of a painting theft. But the meticulously planned action soon gets out of hand and it's all about survival.

Thomas Arslan
Director

Part of the Trojan Trilogy

Includes Scorched Earth and other great movies.

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Top Billed Cast

Mišel Matičević
Mišel Matičević

Trojan
Marie Leuenberger
Marie Leuenberger

Diana
Alexander Fehling
Alexander Fehling

Victor
Tim Seyfi
Tim Seyfi

Luca
Bilge Bingul
Bilge Bingul

Chris
Marie-Lou Sellem
Marie-Lou Sellem

Rebecca
Katrin Röver
Katrin Röver

Claire
Anja Schneider
Anja Schneider

Nadja
Tamer Yiğit
Tamer Yiğit

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A review by jw
Written on July 21, 2024

**Shadowrun**!

The film promotion probably needed a mention of Nouvelle Vague; and I too quickly thought of Melville's classics.

But even if the previous film hadn't been called ‘In the Shadows’:

This is Shadowrun.
Without magic, metahumans, and in the Germany of 202x - but otherwise a street-level Shadowrun.
A solo, a fixer, a job; a rigger, a decker, a samurai about to retire; a Schmidt¹... and the run.

After the introduction of the characters - Trojan gets the longest, the others progressively shorter - the run gets underway in classic Shadowrun fashion.

The sober realism is very pleasing. Even German ÖRR crime thrillers today have a slight superhero halo around the characters. Here, on the other hand, the production conveys: this is real street level, Chummer; a ...

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