Review of 7500 (2019) by Compi24 — 10 Jul 2020

Tight, no-frills, yet effective nonetheless, "7500" makes for a solid addition to the "confined thriller" sub-genre and is anchored unshakably by some near career-best work from Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

Color me stunned, because I've seen a lot of what the man's capable of ("50/50," "(500) Days Of Summer," "Don Jon," etc.) and I'd still say this performance probably cracks the top three for me.

However, what stunned me most about the film was writer/director Patrick Vollrath's (in his feature debut) commitment to an uncompromising vision for the world we all inhabit. This is an implacably dark, at times brutal watch, featuring some real choice words on justice, vengeance and the never-ending tug of war between the East and the West.

Some may be deterred by its iciness, but I personally found this movie's thematic content to be almost achingly apt. Solid work overall.