From almost a last decade or so
Korean cinema has been honing their skill in crime thrillers with so much
consistency, prowess and intensity. They’re not only redefining the
action-crime-thriller genre from long but also bringing out a cool action hero
too. It’s time for Hollywood
to learn a thing or two about how to make a taut slick thriller from them. Here
is another gripping thriller with enigmatic and detached young man as lead who
has a hidden track record and a tragedy. He’s pawnshop owner who’s sharing
sublime emotional bonding with his neighbor’s small daughter who’s too innocent
and yet too mature for her age. She names their union as ‘pawnshop creek and
garbage’. Drug trafficking between two rival gangs led to the daughter and mother’s
abduction. As the girl is the only hope or innocence left of his otherwise reclusive
and tormented life, the kidnapping leads to his involvement in the engaging
plot in order to protect her. It’s too late for him to realize that he’s used
as mean to end the gang rivalry.
The rest is fast paced slick
action thriller with everything on platter that one expects from Korean cinema-
homicide, gang rivalry, violence, double cross, drug trafficking, organ trade
where our lone hero is dangling between sniffing cops and gangster mob men. There
isn’t a moment of dullness; it’s taut and edge on the seat entertainment with
electrifying action including that brilliantly executed knife fight sequence. Jeong-beom
Lee a new promising entry in the block of notable contemporary Korean directors
ranging from Bong Joon Ho, Park Chan Wook & Kim Jee Woon and am looking
forward to him in coming time. Same can be said about the man in lead- Bin Won.
Remember the retarded son in Bong Joon Ho’s ‘Mother’.
Recommended for all thriller
& Korean cinema fans.
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