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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: Action/ Drama/ Comedy
Director: Han-sol Shin
Year: 2005
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Poor Byung-tae (Hyun-kyoon Lee). He’s one of those kids who seemed to be born with a sign on their back saying “Kick me.” His father, a policeman, keeps transferring Byung-tae from school to school, and each time, he instantly becomes the target of bullies. […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Action/ Comedy
Director: Min-Ho Cho
Year: 2006
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Les Formidables starts out with a perfectly serviceable premise: ex-gang member Lee Su-hyun (Jeong-myeong Cheon) will have his debts forgiven if he kills a witness to a murder. When he’s thrown in jail, the cops try to pin the murder of a cop on him as […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Suspense/ Action/ Horror/ Comedy
Director: Jee-woon Kim
Year: 2010
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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 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/ Martial Arts/ Drama
Director: Yun-ho Yang
Year: 2004
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
God knows there are plenty of flaws in Fighter In The Wind. During the first half of the movie, the fights are shot in such a way that you can barely make out the fight choreography. Writer/director Yun-ho Yang way overuses slow motion. […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Action/ Drama
Director: Ki-duk Kim
Year: 1997
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
I am chagrined to admit that I sought out Wild Animals because it was written and directed by Ki-duk Kim, who is responsible for such elegant and provocative films as The Bow, 3-Iron, Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter… and Spring, Bad Guy, and The Isle.
Wild Animals […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Action/ Drama
Director: Seok-beom Kang
Year: 2006
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
When we first meet Tae-shik (Rae-won Kim), he’s on a train, writing in a little notebook, things like “I will never fight again” and “I will never drink again.” You see, Tae-shik has just gotten out of prison. He makes his way back to […]
