Nocturnal

브로큰 ‧ Movie ‧ 2025
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One day, his only brother, Seok Tae, returns as a corpse. And his wife, Moon Yeong, disappears. On the night his brother dies and truth falls asleep, fury awakens. Bae Min Tae, who is searching for clues to the case, meets a novelist, Kang Ho Ryeong, who is following the same trail as him and learns that his brother's death was predicted in his bestseller, "Night Trip". In the midst of the confusion between the tangled truths, the organisation his brothers were involved in and the police intervene, chasing each other, and Min Tae begins to pursue fury to uncover the truth about the night his brother died. (Source: Korean = Naver || Translation = kisskh) Edit Translation

  • English
  • Русский
  • हिन्दी
  • magyar / magyar nyelv
  • Country: South Korea
  • Type: Movie
  • Release Date: Feb 5, 2025
  • Duration: 1 hr. 39 min.
  • Score: 6.8 (scored by 238 users)
  • Ranked: #10942
  • Popularity: #9583
  • Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

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Completed
Anthojay
3 people found this review helpful
Mar 1, 2025
Completed 2
Overall 10
Story 10
Acting/Cast 10
Music 10
Rewatch Value 10

Great depth with insane perfection

Thick storyline and insanely well built character linkage, attention to details are extremely precise along with the flow of plot tuned to exact perfection, the depth in its storytelling is just unbelievably stacked in great suspense and class. Acting performance from every one of the cast is no slouch at all, the tension presented on screen is literally jaw droppingly intensified. This is the perfect example of how a blend of arthouse film and cold blooded action styled retribution theme noir done right and clean.
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IM YourOnlyOne
1 people found this review helpful
May 26, 2025
Completed 0
Overall 5.0
Story 4.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 4.0
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Broken in all the right places

# Nocturnal (2025) Review: Broken in all the right places

**Spoiler warning ahead. Proceed only if you've already watched—or don't mind being broken wide open.**

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## A title lost in translation

There’s something quietly frustrating about mismatched titles. The Korean name for this film, 브로큰 (beurokeun)—Broken—says everything it needs to. It’s raw. It’s thematic. It’s accurate.

And then came Nocturnal. Elegant, perhaps, even poetic. But Nocturnal is the name of a novel within the story, not the story itself. A choice that, while likely made for international appeal, ends up setting the wrong tone and wrong expectations.

If you go in expecting a moody thriller about late-night brooding, you’ll come out thinking the third act forgot to arrive. If they had kept the English title as Broken, the story, pacing, and ending would’ve made more sense.

## Acting and atmosphere

For what it is—a revenge thriller—the film delivers. Solid performances all around, led by an actor who wears his role like it’s grown into his bones—a notorious gangster who had already left that life behind but is forced to return after the death of his younger brother.

It gives off the same energy as John Wick—feared, respected, tried to live a normal life, but got dragged back in. Except instead of a dog, it was his sibling.

The cinematography fits the tone: mysterious, crime, gritty, and fitting for a revenge plot. No complaints there.

## Final thoughts

> When mislabeling ruins the mood

The tragedy here isn’t just in the story—it’s in the mismatch between title and tone. International viewers might be left confused by the final scene. There is a sense of something settling, but it’s jagged and unsatisfying—because it was never meant to be about closure. It was about being Broken.

If they had just stuck with Broken, the pieces would’ve come together. Instead, we’re left with a film that feels unfinished, incomplete—not by design, but by branding.

Rating: 5 out of 10 stars (8 if you pretend the title was Broken all along)

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- License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC By-SA) 4.0 International
- By: Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한 (YourOnly.One)
- Date: 2025-05-26

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  • Title: Nocturnal
  • Type: Movie
  • Format: Feature Film
  • Country: South Korea
  • Release Date: Feb 5, 2025
  • Duration: 1 hr. 39 min.
  • Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

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  • Score: 6.8 (scored by 238 users)
  • Ranked: #10942
  • Popularity: #9583
  • Watchers: 1,042

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