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Jarome_Turner · Joined: 10 Sep 2004

Just finished watching this movie. Awesome film! Has replaced Old Boy as my new favorite Korean movie! Great story and some of the best action sequences I've seen in any movie.
Anybody else seen this film? Thoughts?

seoulsucker · Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 10:24 pm Post subject:

Rented it the other day, but was too busy to watch it...

May have to go back and pick it up again.

SHANE02 · Joined: 04 Jun 2003

Downloaded yesterday...heard good things about it but havn't had time to watch yet.

Qinella · Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Location: the crib

Dude I cannot believe you have your computer stats posted in your sig. lol!

Neil · Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Location: Tokyo

Just watched it and for once the search function on this site worked.

All I can say is could they rip off Kill Bill any more? Fight scene where the hero is outnumbered by a gang with swords, wild western music as the background to the fight, a hot bird as the bosses bodyguard, the final fight in some traditional Asian restaurant.

Good film though.

Snowmeow · Joined: 03 Oct 2005 Location: pc room

Saw the Korean action movie City of Violence (2006) tonight and thought it was a pretty good film. Tons of crazy taekwondo, gangsters, and some comedy. A lot of the time, the heroes are up against insane and unlikely odds like hordes of schoolgirls, baseball players with bats, and others with hockey sticks (hockey??). That scene was like the Korean movie version of the computer game Serious Sam.

crazy_arcade · Joined: 05 Nov 2006

I thought it was stupid.

one of the worst Korean movies I'd ever seen.

seoulsucker · Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 10:50 pm Post subject:

Bad, bad, bad movie.

Poor attempt at copying Kill Bill, bad script, lame fight sequences. I can't believe anyone would put this as their top Korean movie.

Carlyles Ghost · Joined: 04 Jul 2007

It was a terrible film. I had the idea, after watching it, that the writer/directors came up with the ending fight scene first (which to be fair was well-shot) and then scripted the rest of the movie around that fight scene. It was assembly line film making at its worst; it was a junk movie whose various plots and sub-plots were ripped off from various American films, a common occurence in Korean cinema.

Snowmeow · Joined: 03 Oct 2005 Location: pc room

With scenes like this how could it be a bad movie?

and simultaneously confronted by a gang of dancers, BMX'ers, schoolgirls, schoolboys, and a baseball team

Rae · Joined: 10 Oct 2007

Good god, Old Boy traumatized me. It's not as psychologically damning as that movie, is it?

Billy Pilgrim · Joined: 08 Sep 2004

Hate it. Totally pointless. Korea has made a lot better movies than this.

Jarome_Turner · Joined: 10 Sep 2004

I started this thread more than a year ago. In hindsight, I guess it wasn't really that good... I can't really remember the plot. I think the reason I was so impressed at the time was because this movie was shot in Choeng-Ju, where I've been living for 3+ years.... it was cool to see the footage shot at local landmarks.

Still a good movie. Anybody who says it is the worst movie ever has obviously never seen this movie , or any Korean romantic "comedy" for that matter.