'Motor City' Team Unpacks the 'Intoxicating' Challenge of Making an Action Movie With Almost No Dialogue

In many ways, "Motor City" is a familiar addition to the action movie canon. Set in 1970s Detroit, it follows an auto worker (Alan Ritchson) who is framed by a local gangster (Ben Foster) and sent to prison. When he is released years later, he sets out on a mission to exact revenge and reconnect with his former love (Shailene Woodley). Revenge, love, betrayal. These are all recognizable ingredients of genre storytelling, and "Motor City" makes full use of them. There's just one catch: It does so with practically zero dialogue. The number of spoken lines in the film can, in fact, be . . .