Biseuteo

Incredible! Only 10 reviews (mine included) for such a gripping, dramatic storyline and such masterful direction. What an absolute thrill to watch!

Unfortunately released a year before the start of the worldwide covid pandemic, but this movie deserves to be REleased worldwide to a wide Western audience! They would love it!

The good: where to begin? Let's start by saying that this movie already starts out rather bleak, dark and violent, but it slowly yet steadily evolves into an even more major dramatic, thrilling and violent final. So have some patience at the beginning, you will definitely be rewarded by a devastating end!

More good: it's a dirty cop movie, but not just anohter run of the mill one. Because the acting performances are rock solid, but the intricate gripping and dramatic storyline deserves most of the applause, because what a mayhem of violence, drama and deceit this story turned out to be. Wow!

The story starts out quite simple with a dirty cop who crosses the law, but who now gets caught up in a murder case in which he is doomed to be found guilty in aiding and abetting the assassination of a powerful drugboss.

The desperation of the leading character is visceral. The depths of betrayal between rivalling cops are boundless. The violence is hideous. The characters are lost and doomed and yet still so humanlike and relatable.

This is absolutely not yet another run of the mill dirty cop / serial killer movie, this is truly something else and then some! Marvellous direction by a young new director. Highly recommended for the arthouse movie fans of the South Korean crime genre. They wont come much better than this!

Bravo!