Tag:Korean Reviews

If someone were to ask me to summarize the plot of Twilight Gangsters very quickly the resulting premise would go “a movie about three senior citizens robbing a bank”. This would immediately incite groans in anyone who was listening and rightfully so. On the surface this movie sounds like it could be another cheesy Martin Lawrence in a fat suit-esque venture, but the reality is that directorKang Ho Jin manages to take a potentially unbearable plot and makes a movie that is funny, exciting, and touching.

She’s on duty (2005)

It’s an accepted fact of like that female cops are sexy. The only thing sexier is an undercover female cop. I’m not sure if the fascination arises from James Bond flicks or those old black…

Death Bell is a perfect example of what I mean. Not to say that they follow my advice and lie down and die, oh no. They do me one better.

For the first half of the film, they let everyone else die instead. Death Bell is like the ultimate version of a reverse Saw, if you don’t get the puzzles right, it’s not you who suffers for the failure, but your friends and classmates.

It is, in a purely horror filmy way, Epic.

A Tale Of Two Sisters is a suspense horror film from Korean. With so many Asian films in this genre, the majority of which are/have been remade by Hollywood, it is hard for films to stand out from the others. Acclaimed director Kim Ji-Woon puts his marks on the genre and produces a film he can be very proud of.