Synopsis
An assassin named Tae-goo is offered a chance to switch sides with his rival Bukseong gang, headed by Chairman Doh. Tae-goo rejects the offer that results in the murder of his sister and niece. In revenge, Tae-goo brutally kills Chairman Doh and his men and flees to Jeju Island where he meets Jae-yeon, a terminally ill woman. Though, the henchman of the Bukseong gang, Executive Ma is mercilessly hunting Tae-goo to take revenge.
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Cast
- Um Tae-gooPark Tae-goo
- Jeon Yeo-beenKim Jae-yeon
- Cha Seung-wonMa Sang-gil
- Lee Ki-youngKuto
- Park Ho-sanYang Do-soo
- Hyun Bong-sikBusan
- Cho Dong-inJin-sung
- Cha Soon-baeMr. Hwang
- Ahn Se-binJi-eun
- Jang Young-namJae-kyoung
Recommendations
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Paste Magazine
While the visual and thematic richness of Night in Paradise could adequately carry the film on their own, the wry comedic tone that often infiltrates even the darkest exchanges between characters enhances the overall emotional payoff. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
Night in Paradise contains a lot of good plotting, several amusing characters and a decent array of exciting action scenes and bloodshed. But it is indulgently long. - 60
Screen Daily
You just wish that director Park had managed to execute the film as a whole with the crisp efficacy of some of his individual sequences. - 60
The Guardian
Leisurely pacing rather draws it all out a bit, but there’s real inventiveness to the way Park wrong-foots the viewer and handles the operatic displays of gunfire and death – and the leads are rather charming. - 58
The A.V. Club
Night In Paradise is an exceptional resource for anyone trying to understand how stories can be told within the frame, even as it consistently trips on its relentless grimdark tendencies. There are no pleasant people to be found here; there is no path that doesn’t lead to the grave. - 58
IndieWire
Park makes a noble attempt to suffuse the meditative soulfulness of Takeshi Kitano’s “Fireworks” into the propulsive genre tropes established by more recent (and more Korean) forebearers like “A Bittersweet Life,” but he just can’t find the same poetry in that silent pain as he’s able to produce from the screaming kind.
