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Wild Card (2015)

★ 5.7 · 1,930 ratings on TMDB

Never bet against a man with a killer hand.

Wild Card poster★ 5.7

When a Las Vegas bodyguard with lethal skills and a gambling problem gets in trouble with the mob, he has one last play… and it's all or nothing.

DirectorSimon West
CastAnne Heche, Dominik Garcia, Hope Davis, Jason Alexander, Jason Statham, Max Casella
GenresAction, Crime, Thriller
The emergence reading

Wild Card keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)E8/E11Fight Club (1999)E8/E11Iron Man 2 (2010)E8/E11The Avengers (2012)E8/E11Iron Man 3 (2013)E8/E11Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)E8/E11

Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

V for Vendetta (2006)E10/E12 · Action, ThrillerWorld War Z (2013)E4/E14 · Action, ThrillerTenet (2020)E0/E14 · Action, ThrillerRobin Hood (2018)E9/E10 · Action, ThrillerChildren of Men (2006)E12/E14 · Action, ThrillerBlade II (2002)E4/E10 · Action, Thriller

Same people

Shared director or cast.

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