I am a big fan of South Korean cinema, and I usually jump at any chance I get to sit down and watch a movie to make it out of South Korea. As I did when I got the chance to watch "Forgotten" (aka "Gi-eok-ui bam").
I must admit that I didn't know what the movie was about, nor did I know who starred it in or even what kind of genre it was. It was Asian and from South Korea, that was all the persuasion I needed.
The movie does start out great, and the events that take place in the movie really had me puzzled. I didn't figure out what was going on before it was revealed towards the end. So director and writer Hang-jun Jang managed to pull off a nice trick here, as I was kept in the dark throughout the course of the movie.
However, I must admit that somewhere along the midway of the movie, give or take, I did feel like the movie was starting to lose some of its appeal and my interest started to ebb. So there was somewhat of a slump there that had to be overcome.
The acting in the movie was quite good, and they had some nice actors and actresses on the cast list to perform these various different roles and characters.
The ending of the movie was very, very anti-climatic, and it just wholeheartedly sent an abrupt blockade on what would otherwise have been a very entertaining movie. And the ending is the reason why I am lowering my score to a 6 out of 10 stars, whereas it was otherwise set to get a 7 out of 10 stars.
While the events throughout the movie was somewhat confusing, but then started to make sense once you figure out what was going on, it just felt like the entire plot of the movie was so very implausible and just felt horribly staged and that also took away from the enjoyment of the movie.
All in all, "Forgotten" is an entertaining enough movie, if you enjoy a mystery thriller, with emphasis on mystery. But this is hardly among the top of the line in entertainment to make it out of South Korean cinema, not even by a long shot.
I must admit that I didn't know what the movie was about, nor did I know who starred it in or even what kind of genre it was. It was Asian and from South Korea, that was all the persuasion I needed.
The movie does start out great, and the events that take place in the movie really had me puzzled. I didn't figure out what was going on before it was revealed towards the end. So director and writer Hang-jun Jang managed to pull off a nice trick here, as I was kept in the dark throughout the course of the movie.
However, I must admit that somewhere along the midway of the movie, give or take, I did feel like the movie was starting to lose some of its appeal and my interest started to ebb. So there was somewhat of a slump there that had to be overcome.
The acting in the movie was quite good, and they had some nice actors and actresses on the cast list to perform these various different roles and characters.
The ending of the movie was very, very anti-climatic, and it just wholeheartedly sent an abrupt blockade on what would otherwise have been a very entertaining movie. And the ending is the reason why I am lowering my score to a 6 out of 10 stars, whereas it was otherwise set to get a 7 out of 10 stars.
While the events throughout the movie was somewhat confusing, but then started to make sense once you figure out what was going on, it just felt like the entire plot of the movie was so very implausible and just felt horribly staged and that also took away from the enjoyment of the movie.
All in all, "Forgotten" is an entertaining enough movie, if you enjoy a mystery thriller, with emphasis on mystery. But this is hardly among the top of the line in entertainment to make it out of South Korean cinema, not even by a long shot.