EarDelightBase Waste of Money.

RyothChatty ridiculous rating

Spidersecu Don't Believe the Hype

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Thomas Tokmenko The first and last 15 minutes of this movie are really engaging visually and vitalize your interest in the story. The problem lies with the middle of the movie where little is presented to keep with the pace of the action. The movie tries too hard to capture a tone of being constantly "bad-ass", and with this loss of cohesion surrounding the plot the film breaks apart in the 2nd act. I got bored amidst the slo-mo and camera effects, they were used too much in which they lost their emphasis after a while. Also it's difficult to understand the progression of the characters, not always clear what they're doing or why. It's a standard Heroic Bloodshed flick except the cinematographer is on ecstasy and the scriptwriter is on speed. There's an imbalance between the visuals and material. Regardless it's a very interesting crime film to watch, and if your a big fan of the Matrix you can check out where the Wachowski bros took some of their inspiration from. Other than that, there's not much here for moviegoers outside the incredibly specific niche of Asian crime dramas. -5/10

lastliberal Myung-se Lee may dream of one day being the Korean John Woo, but he has a long way to go.This was a good film, but it it not in Woo's class. The action was in short bursts, with most of the time spent in routine police procedure. Well, I say "routine" as Detective Woo (Joong-Hoon Park) is anything but routine. I don't know why they would give Miranda warnings in Korea, but he certainly throws out any other procedures that we take for granted in an obsessive hunt for a drug dealer. I just wish we had him going after Osama bin Laden.The hunt takes almost three months and his partner Kim (Dong-Kun Jang) doesn't fare well in the venture. I did find it very interesting that Woo instigated a snowball fight with Kim to take his mind off a shooting. Having been in the trenches dealing with scum, I know that sometimes you have to do those things to heal.One kudo I give the film is the cinematography and music. I was really impressed with the way the leaves, the snow, and the rain, as well as color was used to set the mood.I'll look for more by Myung-se Lee to see if he gets better.

Acharne I trusted in my IMDb brethren that this movie would be at least mildly original and entertaining. Well I was wrong. This was quite possibly one of the worst movies of the past ten years. The direction was that of someone trying to make a European style film while working with a really bad Hong Kong wannabe script. Even the box claimed it was 'In the style of John Woo'. Ha ha. John Woo has made both good and bad movies but they had directions, plot, and occasionally even a touch of character development. This movie had nothing. It had disjointed scenes that didn't follow in to each other at all, attempts at comedy that looked forced and worse yet, a confused looking cast. In one seen the lead jumps on another guy and the camera shakes. Yes that's right, it shakes. I haven't seen anything that lame since 'Hard to Die'. This movie was a painful bore with misleading billing and absolutely no redeeming qualities except that it ends eventually. Please don't waste your time, go and watch teletubbies, Jaws 4, Rocky 5, ANYTHING other than this tripe.

ottaky This is a diamond of a film but, like a diamond, it's not without its flaws. Thankfully, you can forgive the tiny defects and just sit back and enjoy some stunning film work.There so many excellent scenes in this movie that I'm not going to list them all but I will give extra credit to the opening scene, the waiting for the victim scene, the train scene and the final fight scene. (Compare this to the new Matrix Revolutions trailer where Smith and Neo are fighting in the rain). It's rare to see such fantastic direction in a film of ANY budget, let alone what the director had to work with here.True, there are a couple of set pieces that just don't work, like the rooftop fight, but even there you can see the pure inventiveness of the director at work. Maybe he was trying just a little too hard - but it's impossible to hold that against him because it works so well for the rest of the film.If you're after a film that delivers great visuals AND great direction, look no further than this one, it's a real gem.