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a dishonorable but admirably stoic heroine and great smalltime crooks
2024 film. A temple holding secrets, a grilled fish and soju by the sea, women drinking whiskey and Ji Chang Wook hopping around, crazed and pantless. with tattooed thighs. These are a few of my favourite things. JCW is still charming even as a "mad dog covered in perfume". He made a very very good villain and I hope he does more such roles. He has a range and energy which should not be confined only to romance.
An excellent movie, in the vein of many a british production, situated in the small-time underworld of characters with little compunction or shame who can be very entertaining nevertheless, without entering the world of slapstick
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Jeon Do Yeon is an ultimate action star, here as Ha Su Young, a dishonorable ex-detective who was cheated out of her promised payoff while in jail. JDY plays her as an uncomplicated and unfussy woman who knows what she wants and what her limits are. Admirable for her restraint and focus, she is a tenacious, hardened and powerful fighter whom the villains underestimate.
The lovely and duplicitous Jung Yoon Seon, played by Im Ji Yeon, an ex-lover of HSY's now deceased detective partnerand a peripheral part of the group of gangsters, becomes HSY's fan. When she hops out of the car to do an impromptu victory dance in the middle of a battle royal deep in the forests of Sokcho, you will want to dance in your seat too. When the shady detective sidekick exasperatedly asks JYS what she likes about Ha Su Young, she widens her eyes, laughs a little and says, "Everything!". Me too.
Wait for the monk who claps his hands when Mommy Dearest appears.
An excellent movie, in the vein of many a british production, situated in the small-time underworld of characters with little compunction or shame who can be very entertaining nevertheless, without entering the world of slapstick
.
Jeon Do Yeon is an ultimate action star, here as Ha Su Young, a dishonorable ex-detective who was cheated out of her promised payoff while in jail. JDY plays her as an uncomplicated and unfussy woman who knows what she wants and what her limits are. Admirable for her restraint and focus, she is a tenacious, hardened and powerful fighter whom the villains underestimate.
The lovely and duplicitous Jung Yoon Seon, played by Im Ji Yeon, an ex-lover of HSY's now deceased detective partnerand a peripheral part of the group of gangsters, becomes HSY's fan. When she hops out of the car to do an impromptu victory dance in the middle of a battle royal deep in the forests of Sokcho, you will want to dance in your seat too. When the shady detective sidekick exasperatedly asks JYS what she likes about Ha Su Young, she widens her eyes, laughs a little and says, "Everything!". Me too.
Wait for the monk who claps his hands when Mommy Dearest appears.
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