‘King Ivory’ Review: James Badge Dale Leads A Searing, ‘Traffic’-Esque Drug Cartel Crime Thriller [Venice]
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theplaylist.netTense, taut, and deeply gripping writer/director John Swab’s dramatic drug cartel/fentanyl trade crime thriller “King Ivory” is a terrific surprise from the Venice Film Festival’s Orrizonti Extras section.
Reminiscent of Steven Soderbergh’s Academy Award-winning drug trafficking thriller, “Traffic,” though rougher and slightly more condensed in scope, “King Ivory”— one of the many street slang monikers for fentanyl— centers on the ongoing war on drugs, the way it affects many different communities and lives, and the hard reality struggle to make even a tiny dent in this conflict.
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