The Twins
The Twins
| 17 May 2005 (USA)
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Myung-us was born 2 minutes and 17 seconds earlier than his identical twin brother, Hyun-su. Being a middle school drop-out, a bum who rules the depot area, Myung-su is forced by his mother to do things for his smart, successful twin brother, Hyun-su. After fulfilling the military duty for his brother, Myung-su even goes to jail on his behalf. Fed up with living Hyun-su's life on only bad accounts, Myung-su goes through an identity crisis. As Myung-su steps out of the prison gate, he's approached by a beautiful girl named Soon-hui, who lures him into agreeing to rob a bank wit her, only two hours after he was released from prison. However, it turns out to be more than a bank robbery. He realizes that he's been pinned up against the powerful public figures that are involved in Golf Gate. Threatened and scared at first before power and money, Myung-su is ready to fight and punish these public enemies.

Reviews
Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.
Dorathen Better Late Then Never
Asad Almond A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.
Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Yongwook Yoo The movie title is another semantic joke using Korean homonym words. Yeokjeon means either "reversal" or "frontyard of railway station" while myeongsu either "master" or one of most common male name in Korea. Thus the title literally demonstrates "the maestro of fortune-reversing" but in fact, its actual title should be "A man called Myrongsu who survives on the tough street near railway station".The hero, Myeongsu, is a lunch-delivery boy at the station of small Korean town where various low-life figures such as prostitutes and gangsters are fooling around. His twin brother, Hyeonsu, is a well-educated, high-paid lawyer who has a moral problem under the highly competitive plutocracy of Korea. The plot is like this: Hyeonsu's victim, his ex-girl friend, utilizes Myeongsu as his body-double and takes revenge for the collapse of her family by Hyeonsu's subpoena. It is on the duel between twin brothers and on the misdemeanors of high-class society in Korea. In sum, its setting is no more than a comic dough of Cronenberg's dead ringer without any seriousness.However, let it be a comedy dealing with the nonsense made by twin brothers, what lacks in this movie is just one- the motivation of heroes' behaviors. Why Myeongsu took a low-life job and join the plan of screwing his twin brother? Why Hyeonsu became wicked and made his girl-friend so revengeful? Should a comedy neglect any acknowledgeable plot just in order to make the audiences burst into a cheap and stupid laugh? I don't think so. Total abuse of good talents both of actors and of the director. A must-to-garbage can!!