Overly dissapointed by how lackluster it eventually was in both its descalation due to capitalistic tendencies but also the personal stuff on the line for our main characters.
Its editing is pretty good and unique at instances. It can be to much at times but ultimately its good. What sucks the most is that its all there, its story is unique and captivating on paper, its film making is good even when some of its shots look like shit but the story feels like what na hong-jin has already displayed he's capable of and this is a much less interesting anti hero story then chaser. It shows his scratch for big budget blockbuster feel and bringing that to korean cinema but here its still in its infancy and so its not fully formed.
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The Yellow Sea
The only thing he must not have crossed.
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12/22/2010Runtime
141 minsOverview
A Korean man in China takes an assassination job in South Korea to make money and find his missing wife. But when the job is botched, he is forced to go on the run from the police and the gangsters who paid him.
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A brutal, relentless chase through Seoul's underbelly where a desperate man's attempt to escape poverty spirals into violence and moral dissolution. The film is a visceral descent into desperation that doesn't look away from its own brutality.
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Ha Jung-woo
Kim Gu-nam
Kim Yun-seok
Myeon Jeong-hak
Cho Seong-ha
Kim Tae-won
Lee Cheol-min
Choi Seong-nam
Kwak Do-won
Professor Kim Seung-hyun
Im Ye-won
Professor's Wife
Tak Sung-eun
Gu-nam's Wife
Lee El
Joo-young
Jeong Man-sik
Detective 1
Jeong Min-sung
Detective 2
Park Yun-ho
Ulsan Broker 1
Seung Eui-yeol
Ulsan Broker 2
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