Synopsis
Detective Woo is on the trail of the mysterious gangster Sungmin, a master of disguise who always manages to elude his pursuers. Eventually, the cop tracks down and confronts the master-criminal in the suburbs of a coal-mining town.
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Cast
- Park Joong-hoonDetective Woo
- Ahn Sung-kiChang Sung-min
- Jang Dong-gunDetective Kim
- Choi Ji-wooKim Ju-yeon
- Ahn Jae-moYoung-bae
- Do Yong-guDetective Jang
- Park Seung-hoDetective Lee
- Lee Won-jongDetective Park
- Gi Ju-bongChief of Criminal Unit
- Song Young-changDrug Dealer
Recommendations
- 75
New York Daily News
Lee pushes this joyride into stimulation overdrive, playing with colors and film speeds and surfaces and shadows until it makes perfect sense that a movie should be all about energy, rather than -- well, about anything else at all. - 63
USA Today
The script's clichés have nowhere to hide. - 60
The New York Times
This crowd-pleasing spectacle is like a series of showstopper sequences from a musical without much attention paid to the story that is supposed to hold it all together. - 60
Salon
Lee can't tell a story to save his life, but he's something of a visual magician, laying out glittering piles of goodies that you instinctively want to follow. - 60
Chicago Reader
Images about imagery can be diverting, even insightful, but this painterly 1999 feature piles up studies in elaborately choreographed motion that are their own reason for being. - 58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The characters are uniformly repulsive, the cliche-ridden script builds no real tension or psychological interest, and the bottom line is that Lee's innovative but ultimately tedious and even ludicrous MTV-style visuals add absolutely nothing to the story dynamics. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
A Korean film that takes an American genre and gets fancy with it. - 50
Christian Science Monitor
The action of this South Korean melodrama is fast and furious, but its emotions and ideas don't manage to keep up.
