Could have been great. I'm quite disappointed at how they mangled the amazing premise to make this "just another whodunit movie". This South Korean vengeance thriller/crime/mystery film over indulges in melodramatic techniques and convenient (not to mention out of touch with reality) story and plot devices. The film is not quite that gripping despite its subject matter since you could have seen the ending from miles away. Add incoherent parts to the mix that are intentionally glossed over just to move the story along and you get yourself a viewer squinting at irritation and frequently saying at the screen: "What?!", "They didn't think of that?!", "Why is he there?!", "Move and stop him you moron!".
All the intrigue and mystery abruptly ends just after 30 minutes of the movie. It's like they wrote the first 30 minutes of the movie to pique your detective mind then came up with the ending and filled what's left with whatever they could think of - as long as they arrive to the that particular ending, it doesn't matter if it's nonsensical or formulaic or both. When I got to the ending, I was just bored. I was saying to myself "Of course this would happen." The ending didn't have the same effect like watching the endings of other really haunting South Korean thrillers like Memories of Murder and Chaser to name some.
This movie being 4/5 melodrama, 1/5 predictability and a statistical anomaly of danger and originality is why I gave it a rating of 5/10. Seriously if your a viewer with serious tastes on your mysterious maniacal culprits then you better shy away.
All the intrigue and mystery abruptly ends just after 30 minutes of the movie. It's like they wrote the first 30 minutes of the movie to pique your detective mind then came up with the ending and filled what's left with whatever they could think of - as long as they arrive to the that particular ending, it doesn't matter if it's nonsensical or formulaic or both. When I got to the ending, I was just bored. I was saying to myself "Of course this would happen." The ending didn't have the same effect like watching the endings of other really haunting South Korean thrillers like Memories of Murder and Chaser to name some.
This movie being 4/5 melodrama, 1/5 predictability and a statistical anomaly of danger and originality is why I gave it a rating of 5/10. Seriously if your a viewer with serious tastes on your mysterious maniacal culprits then you better shy away.
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