Director: Jee-woon Kim.
Writer: Hoon-jung Park (screenplay).
Cast: Byung-hun Lee, Min-sik Choi and Gook-hwan Jeon.
This reviewer is not an expert on Asian cinema by any means. A brief experiment in the genre a few years back introduced this reviewer to Gozu, Ju-on and Ringu to some unsettling affect. Now, a few years later, this film fan found an opportunity to watch Korea's I Saw the Devil. Essentially, this is a revenge thriller that puts a security agent on the trail of a serial killer. He catches him, then releases him only to catch him again. This causes pain for both characters.
Byung-hun Lee (The Good, The Bad and The Weird) plays the secret agent, Kim Soo-hyeon. He loses his fiancee to Kyung-chul (Min-sik Choi), a sexual predator and opportunitist. The next two hours are spent focusing on Lee as he tracks down Chul again and again. The robbers,...
Writer: Hoon-jung Park (screenplay).
Cast: Byung-hun Lee, Min-sik Choi and Gook-hwan Jeon.
This reviewer is not an expert on Asian cinema by any means. A brief experiment in the genre a few years back introduced this reviewer to Gozu, Ju-on and Ringu to some unsettling affect. Now, a few years later, this film fan found an opportunity to watch Korea's I Saw the Devil. Essentially, this is a revenge thriller that puts a security agent on the trail of a serial killer. He catches him, then releases him only to catch him again. This causes pain for both characters.
Byung-hun Lee (The Good, The Bad and The Weird) plays the secret agent, Kim Soo-hyeon. He loses his fiancee to Kyung-chul (Min-sik Choi), a sexual predator and opportunitist. The next two hours are spent focusing on Lee as he tracks down Chul again and again. The robbers,...
- 2/16/2012
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
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