Fabricated City

My quick rating - 8,8/10. WOW. It has been a long time since I have seen a movie that hits on all cylinders like this. Each aspect, be it drama, action, sci-fi, mystery, basically you name it minus horror gets touched upon and brilliantly. I can't say anything about the acting since it most likely is fine, but reading it takes away from that. I don't judge acting when I don't understand the actors and can't trust the subtitles to be accurate. The movie is about a virtual reality online game champion, and team leader (i say that since it has to do with the movie) who gets framed for a murder. To the extents of the frame job would be criminal for me to describe, you just have to see it. Basically he is imprisoned for this, and while there, he insists his innocence and befriends a serial killer to get some advice on how to get out. Well, the movie would be ok with it being just about that, but he does of course need to prove his innocence, so once out he hooks up with his online team to do just that. Now my description is vague, at best, for a good reason. To give up anything more would not do justice to how well this movie works. The visuals are fantastic, each scene either perfectly believable in the real world, or completely out there on a tech level, or even a bit beautiful in a fantasy world. The action scenes are top notch, and as with most movies from the orient, this being Korean, the scenes are long and very detailed. Do yourself a favor and check this movie out, one of the few times I hope Hollywood gets their hands on this and can even close to touch the quality of this with some American actors. I don't need to pick anyone out, just I could see this being a phenom in the right hands (easier to follow for us who only speak English). Then again, it already was.

It makes more sense, and has all the action.

--The only problem is that U can tell it has inaccurate translations, like so many asian movies.

acting is excellent, action is actually alit over the top, music is spot on, script is very good, ending is predictable, some original humor in it with a little car being a running gag throughout movie

Its got some originality in some parts, and some modern applicability with tech and on line gaming

A mystery ultra action fest that even a woman (who likes mysteries) may be able to enjoy. My wife enjoyed it, and she usually avoids the standard man movie fares.

This movie is fantastic. had no idea what it was about but i let it unravel itself. The acting is great and kept me fascinated by wanting more. Each actor played a strong character and the story line worked well. Sad at some points. Im not sure why there are some really low ratings, maybe because they didnt like reading subtitles.. but i thoroughly enjoyed this movie and hope to see more of this type. I registered on here just so i could review this.

Once again Korean Cinema offers you ( at least ) three film genres in one film. Lets see - Cyber Thriller, Tough Prison, Buddy Movie, Action-Comedy ..make it four! The tone of the movie is consequently uneven as it goes for laughs in places then pours on some brutal scenes. It could have used a bit of a trim in the edit suite as two hours is just too long to maintain tension. On the plus side there are some nice cyber visuals and a very pantomime villain. If you want to stick the noodle in neutral it wont make any difference as the plot is just a thin excuse for the action sequences. Oh and theres some McGyver type scenes too - there's another Genre!

I recommend only watching this movie if you can find it on DVD, or if it's available on a streaming service somewhere.

I watched this online and the English subtitles were very poor, a lot of grammatical / spelling errors that didn't even make sense half the time and a lot of the scenes didn't even have subtitles at all which was very disappointing.

Still really enjoyed the movie regardless.