Special Delivery

A specialist driver winds up lumbered with a kid who is being chased by gangsters who want a key fob off of him which will give them access to loads of money. This South Korean movie mixes odd couple dramatics and comedy in with some high-octane car chase action. It definitely is surer of footing with the latter material, as the story-line is pretty basic, with stereotypical characters and plot developments. The action scenes, however, are rather good, with some nice touches added here and there to make them memorable. The South Korean setting is nice as always too. These types of movies often have generic stories to be fair, so none of that is exactly a deal-breaker here and my advice would be to check it out if you appreciate either car movies or South Korean cinema in general.

If you want high level entertainment then see this movie. The acting is absolutely believable and very well done. Park so Dam is super in this role. You feel the tucked away emotions that surface again at moments like when she sees the boy play.

All the actors perform very well.

The directing might have slipped at some points as there are minor discrepancies in the story line and in human behavior given a certain circumstance, but the movie overall is highly entertaining and mixes humor, action and good drama.

All in all a great movie that beats it's American same themed movies on all points.

This movie is a combination of Baby Driver (2017) and Extraction (2020), but not as good. However, The protagonist's act is awesome and like other korean movies, the action is pretty good. So you might wanna give it a try if you've got nothing else to watch, just remember that you can enjoy it even though it's not a masterpiece.

This movie took me by surprise when I watched it on a bus in The Philippines on a two-hour ride from city to city. A young woman drives real fast at night with some passengers who don't know what they're getting into. That beginning hooked me right from the get-go, that's for sure! From there, we segue to some bad men needing something from somebody or that somebody will get hurt. Also, a little boy is involved. And the young woman's superior. And her friend. And a cat of hers. Anyway, this was quite a thrill ride of a Korean film with English subtitles provided. Nice to find out two of the players were in the Oscar-winning Parasite. I really liked this one. So that's a recommendation of Teuksong, or Special Delivery as I knew it as.

This barrelling action thriller has been billed as a Korean Fast and Furious, but takes a swift handbrake turn into something considerably darker and more introspective. Park So-dam, fresh off her staggering performance in the Academy award winning Parasite, is superb as Eun-ha. She's badass. With some well choreographed set pieces and strong performances, Special Delivery is a perfect popcorn action film for an evening of entertainment. Written and directed by Park Dae-min, this thrilling action film proves that even when you take a basic story that we've seen a hundred times, Asia (especially Korea) just does it better than the West. Yes, a lot of the story beats are the same - corrupt cops, a protagonist who has to care for a child that they didn't want to look after, fast cars - but what sets it apart from its American peers is that the performances and set pieces feel genuinely more adrenaline inducing and engaging.