I Saw the Devil

악마를 보았다 ‧ Movie ‧ 2010
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Eintagsfliege
1 people found this review helpful
Sep 12, 2018
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Overall 10
Story 10
Acting/Cast 10
Music 9.0
Rewatch Value 7.0
A brutal and painful movie to watch. It makes you think... what would you have done? Would you easily hand this psychopath to the police? It's not like other revenge-movies, where the protagonist tries to do the right thing and his goal being to just kill the antagonist - he wants him to suffer, to feel the pain and angst the victims must have borne.
Outstanding actors.

I gave Rewatch Value "only" 7 points not because this isn't a great movie, but you definitely need some time to process this heavy topic.
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AigooMyLengthyParagraphs
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Feb 22, 2025
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Overall 9.0
Story 9.0
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 7.5
Rewatch Value 8.0

Great Revenge story with a lot of Violence.

ALERT: The VIOLENCE (gore) depicted here, can be very disturbing n so be aware, it's not for weak hearts (or Angry hearts 😂)
Be AWARE of the EXPLICIT CONTENT too

HUNTING THE PREDATOR! 👌🏻

GOOD psychological action thriller - the chase , the revenge everything is well written, well executed and well directed.

Hope such a story doesn't happen in real life!

Both the actors did a great job.

Choi Min Shik, Like Anthony Hopkins or Jack Nicholson scares me everytime with his psychopathic roles, haha

The chasing, hunting of the erial killer by the main lead / secret agent to avenge for his family is very interesting n gripping to watch.

U will be tired n exhausted mentally, watching them running n chasing desparately, haha.

Once again, This has unacceptable levels of gore Violence, so Be aware of that

Hero saw the Devil (dark side) in Villain.
Then Villain saw the Devil (dark side) in Hero
n I saw the Devils (dark, scary sides) in both of them! 😂

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loveofalifetime011293
1 people found this review helpful
Jul 2, 2022
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Overall 8.5
Story 8.0
Acting/Cast 10
Music 10
Rewatch Value 8.5

Most detailed movie ever

Ok first of all how did they even filmed this? it's a masterpiece. I just couldn't feel Lee Byunghun's emotion and anger that much because he didn't showed it like how Choi Minsik did, but they both did great. Lee Byunghun's action of revenge made me feel and it showed me how great this movie is! it's shocking, everything is shocking. But the chitchatting parts with the detectives are quite boring yknow, but the action scenes and the production of this movie carried everything! and though I never expected a film would be this detailed and gory ... I loved everything! and not to mention every scene is fucking cool and iconic I swear, from the green house fight to the clinic scene LMFAO.

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Kerry
1 people found this review helpful
Mar 27, 2016
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Overall 9.0
Story 9.0
Acting/Cast 10
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 7.5
This movie is crazy and could possibly be used to scare people into never talking to strangers again much less taking a cab ever. The talented actors are off the chain and great, thumbs up to the actors. I think this is one of the movies that could haunt you in your sleep. It is gruesome, has action, slight sick twist in the comedy area, suspense and next to 0 on the romantic scale. lol. But it is worth the watch and may have you covering your eyes in certain scenes. Still great watch though. Just makes me scared that there may be actual people out there that commit these types of crimes. The question kinda lingers though, who was more crazy?Ahhh revenge will make you do some crazy things. Goes to show you though, you should never poke a sleeping lion.

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Reza Hedi
2 people found this review helpful
Jul 21, 2014
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Overall 9.5
Story 9.5
Acting/Cast 8.5
Music 4.0
Rewatch Value 5.5
It is one of the rare masterpieace of Korean cinema , narrated a serial killer story and his crimes. The film delicately described and illustrated his offence. Its prime is when he kill a prognant beautiful woman berutally even though her entreaty for mercy!
I strongly recommend watching this movies.
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yaddle_t
2 people found this review helpful
Mar 2, 2012
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Overall 8.0
Story 10
Acting/Cast 10
Music 7.0
Rewatch Value 9.0
This movie was something else. The story is interesting and the actors are top notch. It's pretty interesting to see a once law abiding agent lose his marbles and go over the dark side to get his revenge. There are many visually disturbing violent scenes but that's just to show you how evil one can be or how crazy one can become if perturbed. The whole story unveils very well too, with an awesome ending.
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IzzyDramaLover
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Mar 10, 2018
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Overall 10
Story 10
Acting/Cast 10
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 4.5
I love a good revenge story and this was definitely a brilliant one!
But it's definitely not a movie for the weak hearted cause it has too much of sexual violence and gore. I had to skip a few mature scenes myself..it was too disgusting to watch. *pukes* Those scenes very graphic and gruesome but necessary for the story, that's why I think the story deserves a 10/10.

Acting - 10/10. I think it takes a lot of skill to play the roles of the main characters. Choi Min Shik and Lee Byung Hun played their roles perfectly!

Music - I just gave it an 8/10 but actually I didn't really pay attention to the music lol. But so assume it's good cause if it was terrible it would have distracted me.

I like this movie much more than Old Boy.. but like Old Boy, I don't think I can re-watch this again. It's just too disturbing..

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Sinderella
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Jan 16, 2026
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Overall 9.5
Story 9.5
Acting/Cast 10
Music 8.5
Rewatch Value 10

Incroyable !

Ce film était dans ma "watchlist" depuis un bon moment et je regrette d'avoir attendu aussi longtemps pour le regarder.

L'acting était est top, le méchant de l'histoire était très bon. Ça n'a pas dû être évident de jouer un personnage aussi malsain et pervers.

La guerre psychologique entre KSH et JKC est le meilleur aspect du film, qui est assez impressionnant à regarder. Âmes sensibles s'abstenir.

L'œuvre a réussi a dépeindre à la fois la douleur, la tristesse et la revenge.

La scène de fin m'a fait un peu mal au cœur.

Un film que je recommanderai sans hésitations

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Megan
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Jan 9, 2018
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Overall 10
Story 10
Acting/Cast 10
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 8.0
Woooo! What a movie. Choi Min Shik and Lee Byung Hun were outstanding! Choi as the psycho killer, totally devoid of emotion. And Lee as the grief stricken, secret agent, oh my! You can tell he’s barely keeping it together and his mission is the only thing keeping him going. The ending was cold! And when you watch it you’ll see what I’m saying when I say, I see the devil in Lee’s character. And that’s one of the reasons this was such a great movie. The unexpected journey we went on as we saw Soo-hyung getting his revenge was so subtle and well acted that it wasn’t until the final scene that I realized how broken he was. His fiancés death destroyed him completely. And the ending song that played as the credits began rolling just totally swept me away, it didn’t matter that Lee’s face was no longer on the screen, the music played out his sorrow for him. 

I never expected that it would turn into a cat and mouse game but since that was so unexpected, I loved the movie even more. I’ve never seen a revenge film take that approach before. Following the killer around I felt engrossed, waiting to see what would happen next and I never felt bored as there were many twists to keep me entertained. 

It was a little gorey but nothing in the gore porn film genre, like it’s not a Saw movie. It was just enough to fascinate and disgust me simultaneously. You saw how psychotic the killer was so it was satisfying watching him suffer. Which I think is the mark of not only a good actor playing his role to perfection but a well told story, that I’m rooting for pain.

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skoorb13
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Oct 23, 2023
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Overall 1.0
Story 5.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 5.0
Rewatch Value 1.0
This review may contain spoilers

Why I hated this kind of great movie.

There are many positive comments about how this is such an amazing piece of cinema. Yes, it is graphic and not for the faint of heart. I think the two male leads were pretty great. Lee Byung Hun as Kim Soo Hyun was good as the "good" guy, and Choi Min Shik was awesome at making Jang Gyung Chul one of the most despicable, disgusting, terrible characters ever.

That said, there is one facet of this movie that just turned me off to the whole thing. SPOILER AHEAD:



Soo Hyun puts a tracking device in Gyung Chul and lets him go. Oh, is he going to track him through the woods or some deserted area and just keep messing with him? No. He lets him go right where he is, to go and offend on a bunch more people. I believe he killed at least 3 people after Soo Hyun let him go. Those are the most egregious. But that poor nurse will also never be the same. Soo Hyun could have done many different things to torture that a$$h0l3. But letting him go like he did just ruined the movie for me. Soo Hyun turns out to be a terrible character as well. I know he didn't want that, or intend for that to happen, but the fact is that the baddie ruined a bunch more lives because of the way Soo Hyun decided to handle it. Sooooooo lame.

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mewi
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May 2, 2020
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Overall 10
Story 10
Acting/Cast 10
Music 9.0
Rewatch Value 10
Amazing movie. Some of the scenes were so disturbing, would not recommend <15 to watch it. Gruesome murder scenes, but the acting by the villain was superb that you would hate him from the very start.
Could feel my heart beating so fast and couldn't stop feeling for the victims. It also gives a very strong message, not to trust everyone willing to offer help. The hero of this movie is a damn fantastic actor. I had watched this movie a long time ago, but can still remember his rage and hurt. The ending was very satisfying, felt so much for each and every victim and for the loved ones they left behind.

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Sunmi
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Mar 13, 2017
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Overall 8.0
Story 7.5
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 6.0
This movie has sex scenes and violent scenes, so if you are a sensible person this movie is not for you but if you are not a sensible person and you like this kind of movie than you will love this one.
What I liked so much about this movie was the fact that Soo-Hyun gave up everything to revenge his fiancé and to make the killer suffer as much as he could. While you watch the movie you will notice how Kyung-chul's eyes can make you turn on the lights again once you see how he doesn't feel anything after killing a person. The cast is very well chosen, achou Min Shik did a very good job as a psychopath, like I said before, just by looking at his eyes I wanted to turn off the screen because it's really scary, that only shows how good his act was.

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