Synopsis
North Korea's 8th Special Forces hijack a shipment of CTX, a potent new liquid explosive, and threatens South Korea as part of a plot to re-unify the two countries. Ryu and Lee, special agents of O.P., South Korea's secret intelligence service, attempt to track down the terrorists and find the CTX. Meanwhile Hee, the 8th's ultra-bad female sniper, resurfaces to wreak havoc and haunt Ryu.
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Cast
- Han Suk-kyuYu Jong-won
- Yunjin KimLee Myung-hyun
- Choi Min-sikPark Mu-young
- Song Kang-hoLee Jang-gil
- Yoon Joo-sangChief Agent
- Park Yong-wooEo Seong-sik
- Park Eun-sookLee Bang-hee
- Jo Deok-hyeonLee Won-doo
- Kim Soo-roAhn Hyun-chul
- Kim Sang-miSoo
Recommendations
- 90
Los Angeles Times
In recent years, South Korean cinema has fully flowered, producing both uncompromising highly personal films and crisp, intelligent genre movies, with Shiri the most spectacular example of the latter to date. - 75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Compelling, kinetic, fast and furious. - 75
Chicago Tribune
A beautifully tooled action thriller about love and terrorism. - 63
New York Post
The girl you see stabbing and shooting prisoners and fellow trainees makes the killer from "La Femme Nikita" look like a wuss. - 50
Wall Street Journal
The action looks impressive, even when nothing much is happening beyond local explosions or shattering glass, and the drama turns, affectingly, on a mysterious female sniper with a partitioned soul. - 50
New York Daily News
Americans, for better or worse, have already seen plenty of budget-busting action flicks with half-baked political pretensions. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
Suffers most from being overlong. - 40
L.A. Weekly
Though the two-hour film can go slack with excess explication, Shiri compensates with an overheated drive that forces the myopia of current events toward a broader field of vision.
