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Country: Korea
Genre: Suspense/ Drama/ Action
Director: Shin-yeon Won
Year: 2006
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Music professor Young-sun (Byeong-jun Lee) is driving former student In-jeong (Ye-ryeon Cha) home from an audition. The power of his position and his feelings of privilege and entitlement embolden him to attempt a seduction. In-jeong, having grown up in a loving upper middle […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Suspense/ Romance/ Action
Director: Jong-seok Yoon
Year: 2009
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
There is such a thing as having too many twists in a plot. In Marine Boy, the characters seem to be one thing, then another, then another, and then another yet again. The only point of stability is the title character. In the climax, the […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Suspense/ Action/ Horror/ Comedy
Director: Jee-woon Kim
Year: 2010
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
At the center of the universe, all that exists is a howling nothingness. With our jobs, convenience stores, families, and friends, it can seem like the universe is a rational place, where morality and merit have a foothold. This is an illusion, an […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Action/ Suspense/ Romance
Director: Lee Sang-yong
Year: 2009
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
4th Period Mystery is really a movie for kids, which isn’t meant to knock it. It declines to examine the situation it presents in a thoroughly realistic manner. Instead, it presents a world taken from a kid’s eye view.
Notice that I don’t say that […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Action/ Suspense
Director: Ho-Young Kwon
Year: 2010
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Parallel Life starts out with an intriguing premise. When the wife of Judge Hyeon-seong Yu (Jeong-min Kwon) is murdered, he comes across evidence that he’s living an identical life to another judge, whose wife was murdered 30 years before. In that case, the entire family […]
≡ Category: Action, Korea, Movie Reviews Ordered By Country, Not Worth Your Time, Suspense | ≅ 3 Comments
Country: Korea
Genre: Action/ Suspense
Director: Kwon-tae Ahn/ Kyung-Taek Kwak
Year: 2008
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
As wonderful as Korean movies often are, and as technically proficient as they are in practically every area of filmmaking, there are some things that Koreans just can’t seem to pull off.
If they try to be cool and do something like pull off […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Action/Drama/Suspense
Director: Yoon-Hyun Chang
Year: 2004
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Some is proof that competent filmmaking is not enough — you have to have an elegant, concise script to go along with it.
Some begins with Seo Yu-jin (Ji-hyo Song) experiencing her own death. In her own mind, she rewinds to the present and wakes up.
Okay, […]
≡ Category: Drama, Horror, Korea, Movie Reviews Ordered By Country, Not Worth Your Time, Suspense | ≅ 3 Comments
Country: Korea
Genre: Horror/Drama/Suspense
Director: Yoon-Hyun Chang
Year: 1999
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Somebody is leaving Hefty bags full of mix and match dismembered corpses around Seoul for passerby to find. So begins Tell Me Something, a would-be horror mystery.
Detective Cho (Suk-kyu Han), a disgraced cop who looked the other way at a criminal enterprise in return for having […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Horror/ Suspense/ Comedy/ Drama/ Action
Director: Hong-jin Na
Year: 2008
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
American critics are fond of saying that today’s movies are “dark.” The Dark Knight Returns is dark. Sin City is dark. Watchmen is dark. Bullshit. You want dark? Watch Korean movies.
A case in point is Chaser.
After Joong-ho Eom (Yun-seok Kim) was […]
