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Lisa Idah Lungu
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Overall 9.0
Story 10
Acting/Cast 9.5
Music 9.5
Rewatch Value 10
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Honestly i feel soo empty but satisfied

I just finished watching this movie and i can feel what the guy is feeling at the end of it when he walks away .great acting from the villian.one scene that truly gave me chills when he knocked on her car window ,she said she was alright and was just going to wait for the towcar and he just stood there staring at her then smiled .haaaaa it had me chills .
I feel like the devil in this story was not the villian but the victims boyfriend .he was dealing out repeated punishment like how hell is mostly depicted .a never ending torture scene .
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Incognito
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Mar 31, 2019
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Overall 8.0
Story 8.0
Acting/Cast 8.5
Music 7.5
Rewatch Value 8.0
Super intense movie! It's disturbing for sure, some severe gore and plenty of gritty imagery. But its definitely worth the pain and disgust you feel watching the antagonist act as pure evil and the protagonist, whose entire life changes in one moment when his wife is brutally murdered struggling with the pain of loss and believing that only revenge will be justice he needs. I honestly don't have any problems with this one because it was well made, well acted, well written. But the thrill and disturbing path of the protagonist becoming darker as time passes was just heartbreaking. I loved the way it was made, from everything from snow falling to the cries of pain you can feel it. I thought the ending was just as brilliant as the whole movie.

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lackability
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Apr 12, 2022
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Overall 9.0
Story 9.0
Acting/Cast 10
Music 10
Rewatch Value 9.0
When I first found out about this movie, I was listening to the soundtrack on Spotify while scrolling through others' playlist. I found a song I really liked, and when I started to watch the movie, it was the song for the opening scene, and from the way the camera was positioned, I knew I was already going to like it. This movie isn't for the weak-hearted or easily frightened. It shows a lot of scenes that even made myself shiver, to where the injury was at. But I assure you to at least try to get through them, because this story pushes beyond what I had expected.
I loved it so much. I can't relate to any of the characters feelings as nothing similar has happened to me in person, but the emotional side, and the sort of way the movie captures facial expressions without having to "mention" the context encapsulated me. It is defiantly worth a watch and a re-watch due to the nature of the movie.

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Hlebka
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Feb 10, 2025
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Overall 7.0
Story 5.0
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 8.5
Rewatch Value 5.0
The highlights of this movie remain the acting—Choi Min-sik is just brilliant and evil, and his presence overshadows the protagonist. The score complements the scenes very well, even during jump scares. Technical qualities such as the makeup, gore, and locations are also great. However, the script has serious problems. The protagonist is Bruce Lee-powerful when convenient, but for unexplained reasons, he repeatedly delays intervening. As a result, female victims are subjected to harm and violence due to his hesitation, and the camera work becomes problematic when this happens multiple times. Additionally, a ridiculous and unbelievable coincidence occurs in the middle of the movie involving a taxi—an event that could make for an entertaining short film on its own. Finally, the ending makes no sense, as the only people who suffer are innocent victims. Overall, this movie is worth watching because there are entertaining moments throughout.

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oppa_
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Dec 16, 2023
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fake hype over a shitty story

there is serial killer ( psychopath ) who kill ML is girlfriend then ML track him so easily but did not kill him because he want him to make more victims just like his girlfriend
ML was full responsible for his girlfriends fathers death just for his enjoyment
then at the end he torture villein family not villein he give him easy chop chop death
so girlfriends family die for his enjoyment and that man even claim to love his girlfriend

ML was just similar with all other Korean ML SELFISH AND SELF CENTERED until the end
he wanted to torture killer for his own self satisfaction and he fail to do that miserably, he end up torturing an innocent child and 2 old parents. but killer enjoy his life and die easily and would rape his girlfriend in afterlife .
it doesn't look that he even loved his dead girlfriend at all, she is just a excuse for him to do all those things because he is also similar to them a Psychopath

ML was busy showing his arrogance in whole story that he is better then them, but you failed to protect your woman so no matter what you do your a loser so stop that show off and kill or torture him for all his life....

kill his son and feed him his own son body parts.

ML is just a IDIOT psychopath who is trying to pretend he is something more then that. and failed at everything he did miserable but he still believe he did something ?
if i could give rating in minus i would have given -10000 to this HYPED shit of a story

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SOSLuluzeira
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Story 8.0
Acting/Cast 10
Music 9.0
Rewatch Value 8.0
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Impactante

Enrolei muito para começar esse filme, justamente por conta de sua fama como um dos melhores thrillers da Coreia do Sul. De fato concordo: é realmente muito bom. Ainda assim, acho que ele peca em alguns pontos, e por isso minha nota final fica em 8/10.

Extremamente bem filmado, com uma fotografia imersiva e uma direção que transforma todas as cenas de violência em experiências agonizantes e perturbadoras, I Saw the Devil me surpreendeu. A violência não é gratuita: as sequências longas, com poucos ou nenhum corte, criam uma tensão absurda, te deixando angustiado e com vontade de desviar o olhar.

O vilão, interpretado magistralmente, não busca ser carismático: ele é grotesco, cruel, quase um animal. Na primeira metade do filme, achei que ele fosse o “diabo” do título, enquanto o protagonista seria apenas alguém que o “viu”, um homem em busca de vingança pela morte brutal da noiva.

O vilão é um serial killer incontrolável, com sede de sangue, um maníaco sexual que escolhe como alvos mulheres bonitas e vulneráveis, embora também não hesite em matar qualquer homem que atrapalhe sua caçada. A direção acerta muito ao não romantizar essa figura. Por mais que o ator tenha carisma, o personagem não tem nada. E que atuação incrível, ele simplesmente se transforma, e não falo de maquiagem, mas de presença, de entrega.

Do outro lado, o protagonista — que inicialmente parece o "mocinho" clássico — me surpreendeu ainda mais. No começo, imaginei que seria o típico filme de vingança: um herói que persegue o vilão até matá-lo. Mas a segunda metade desconstrói totalmente essa expectativa. O vingador não quer apenas matar, ele quer transformar o vilão em sua presa, num jogo de caça cruel e psicológico. Ele o pega, tortura… e solta. Pega de novo, tortura… e solta. Vai quebrando o vilão física e mentalmente, criando nele o mesmo terror que causou às vítimas. A sombra da vingança o domina de tal forma que é possível sentir que ele está gostando desse jogo. Quem antes era apenas alguém que “viu o diabo”, acaba se transformando no próprio “diabo” aos olhos do vilão.

A mensagem do filme sobre vingança é poderosa, ela nunca traz vitória, apenas mais destruição. O vingador já havia perdido tudo no momento em que perdeu sua noiva, e o vilão nunca deixa que ele esqueça disso.

O filme é cru, violento, sombrio. Me peguei várias vezes tampando a boca, seja por susto, seja por incredulidade. Particularmente, achei a segunda metade muito superior à primeira (como se houvesse uma conversão do thriller em thriller psicológico), embora a direção fosse impecável do começo ao fim, potencializada ainda mais por uma trilha sonora precisa, que intensifica cada cena.

Mas nem tudo funcionou para mim. Duas coisas me incomodaram bastante.

A primeira foi aquela cena forçadíssima na reta final: a polícia inexplicavelmente enrolando para prender o serial killer, dando tempo para o protagonista sequestrá-lo antes da prisão de uma maneira ridícula e mentirosa. Foi uma clara conveniência de roteiro, que destoou de toda a construção cuidadosa do filme até ali.

A segunda foi a inserção desnecessária da “família canibal”, numa clara referência (ou cópia) a O Massacre da Serra Elétrica: um amigo do vilão, que vive isolado com a esposa, e que também é canibal. Achei essa parte mal inserida e mal desenvolvida, não acrescentou praticamente nada à trama. Pelo contrário contrário, soou como um artifício gratuito para chocar, algo que o resto do filme não precisava.

Enfim, é um filme ótimo, um baita thriller, que recomendo para quem tem estômago forte. Tem alguns jump scares (o primeiro quase me matou de susto), mas, no geral, não é um filme de terror, e sim um thriller psicológico denso e impactante.

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