A Bittersweet Life
When doing right goes very, very wrong.
Kim Sun-woo is an enforcer and manager for a hotel owned by a cold, calculative crime boss, Kang who assigns Sun-woo to a simple errand while he is away on a business trip; to shadow his young mistress, Hee-soo, for fear that she may be cheating on him with a younger man with the mandate that he must kill them both if he discovers their affair.
Lee Byung-hun
Sun-woo
Kim Yeong-cheol
Mr. Kang
Shin Min-a
Hee-soo
Kim Roi-ha
Moon-seok
Lee Ki-young
Oh Moo-seong
Avis de la communauté (6)
Neo-noir movie, a la Melville's Le Samurai. Good action drama with great style and action scenes.
This movie made me so nostalgic for mid 2000s flip phones.
1 / 2 directing & technical aspect .5 / 1 story 1 / 1 act I 1 / 1 act II .5 / 1 act III 1 / 1 acting 1 / 1 writing 0 / 1 originality 0 / 1 lasting ability to make you think .5 / 1 misc (entertaining) 6.5 / 10 I love Byung-hun Lee, but this is just another revenge movie. Really good fight coreography though.
Very good! Really slick and empathetic direction. 6.5/10
Absolutely phenomenal. I mean this in the best way possible: the entire film captures the unmistakable essence of 90s Hong Kong cinema. It’s a stylish, melancholic, and brutal masterpiece that balances poetic visuals with unflinching violence. Kim Jee-woon delivers a noir experience that feels both nostalgic and refreshingly modern.