The Man from Nowhere
The Man from Nowhere
R | 01 October 2010 (USA)
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An ex-special agent is involved in a convoluted drug ring drama. He has to save a drug smuggler's innocent daughter from being the victim of her parents' fight.

Reviews
ada the leading man is my tpye
PlatinumRead Just so...so bad
Hattie I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.
Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
iamtanjimul This film is so amazing . Good story, a lot of action, the actors are great.I loved it!
anboicheff The man from nowhere lives in a pawnshop next to a mother and daughter. He is a withdrawn man with no relationships and tries to keep to himself, however he forms a bond with a young girl. Over the time they spend time together, he develops a soft spot for her. But then she was abducted and her mother was killed. The man from nowhere goes on a quest to get her back. I really enjoyed the movie 'The Man from Nowhere'. It had great plot development and a wonderful storyline. You really got to see the characters deepen throughout the movie. You learned that the "man from nowhere" wasn't always so dark. This was one of the most interesting parts of the movie to me, to find out he had a wife, but not just a wife, a pregnant wife that died was heart- breaking to me. But it really explained his character. It showed why he was so scared to form connections, he was just scared of getting hurt again. It also had a great ending, I was very much expecting for the little girl to be dead, but everything worked out okay in the end. Although he might go to jail, she was alive and thats all that mattered to me.
magilroy The Man From Nowhere, directed by Lee Jung-beom, completely blew my expectations away. Going into the movie, I was a little biased as an American that held a false global perspective. I imagined that since this movie was produced in Korea, that it would not be as professional nor good as an American movie. I also thought the language barrier would make the movie even more unappealing. I was completely wrong. This movie is one of the best movies I have ever watched. The language barrier was nonexistent for it was fixed with subtitles and the annoyance was never apparent because the movie was too good. The director portrayed the main character as a quite, mysterious person who owns a pawn shop, and Lee later develops the character's backstory throughout the movie as people investigate him. The ties between family and the pawn shop owner's past are discovered and bring emotion into the film. After his neighbor and her daughter, who he has formed a connection with, are taken by drug lords, he attempts to save them. While dodging the DEA after being set up by the captor of his neighbors to fighting multiple villains, we watch our main character, a juggernaut, as he dispenses of as many enemies as it will take to find his neighbor and her daughter. Eventually, he manages to pinpoint the head villains and take them down one by one. The ending of the last fight scene, which I won't spoil, is extremely satisfying and a giant relief and makes this movie even better. This movie deserve a ten-out-of-ten rating because it was incredibly enjoyable to watch and was well directed.
Pablo This was a very intense movie to watch. It had many exciting elements to it as well as many sad moments. The story follows a man named Cha Tae Shik. He served as part of a special operations unit in the military and went completely under the radar after the death of his wife. The only people he has left are a drug abusive dancer and her little daughter who is only a toddler. When a South Korean gang takes the mother and kills her to fuel their black market organ trade, they take her daughter as hostage. Cha Tae Shik wont stop until he gets the dancer's daughter back. In the meantime, the cops are also going after the gang members, but they get needlessly distracted with Shik. This movie had many intense action scenes in it. It was petty easy to watch at some points but at others it became very hard. For example when the garbage truck slammed into Shik's car, killing his wife and unborn baby. Or when the trunk of one of the gang's cars is popped open, revealing the dead, harvested body of the mother. One of my favorite scenes was in the end, after Cha Tae Shik had killed all of the bad guys and was in the parking lot. Out of the dark came the daughter, in good health, and ran towards him. This relieved basically all of the suspense and tension that nearly the entire movie had built up. I also noticed how clever some of the camera angles were. My favorite was when Shik was running into the subway station. As he entered, it was raining and the camera was facing down as the water droplets fell away from the viewer. It created a very cool effect in my opinion.
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