Petia Vladimirova
Poor american action with korean actors, a lot of violence and unrealistic scenes. Koreans speaking english and swearing at italian, still can't understand that. "Our guy" is beaten, shooted, stabbed, but he is keep fighting like samurai. Bad guys are ugly and disgusting, good guys are pretty, there is a crying woman of course which "bad guys" tried to kill but when they captured her they did nothing. This movie was a waste of time.
grandmastersik
A simple plot: a hit-man accidentally kills a little girl and is then sent to put the mother out of her misery.So, how can this possibly go wrong? After the explosive beginning, the pace drops off almost to the point of tedium as we're supposed to feel the agony of characters we never quite connect with. There's something about Triad bank accounts worth around $100 million thrown in to motivate the gangsters and throw some cops into the mix, but it's so poorly put together that - if it couldn't have been fixed via a couple of rewrites - really should have been taken out.Fortunately, 40 minutes or so in, the action kicks off again and it's the excellence we all sat down to watch in the first place.Now, I'm all for catering for genre fans, just as I'm all for making deep, meaningful thrillers, but unfortunately, the plotting doesn't quite have the plausibility or pacing to be the powerful action-thriller the director was hoping it would be and in the end, despite all the great action scenes, No Tears For the Dead left me feeling detached and out in the cold.
Liam Coombes
People constantly ask me in my media class why do I watch foreign films, to reply I show them the trailer to this film as well as a couple of others.This film is among my favourite action films up there with the likes of The Raid 2.The film follows a hit-man that just wants to get out of the game after accidentally killing a young girl but instead of being left alone his employer asks him to kill the mother of the girl he killed. While being a simple plot it is used as a way to discuss themes such as the grief attached to the loss of a loved one and the job of parents.The character's of the hit-man (Gon) and his target (Mo-gyeong) are both well drawn out and complex, each suffering and dealing with it in there own ways.The action sequences are some of the best I have seen outside of The Raid films. One scene in an apartment block shows a incredible knife fight as well as a dramatic shootout that seem all to real for what we see on the news.While you could accuse the film of having some pacing issues after the first ten minutes of the film I see it as a pay off and believe me after the first hour you will be rewarded with incredible action and brilliant character moments.To say No Tears For The Dead is better than The Man From Nowhere (Done by the same director) would be incorrect. However this film is still incredible and is worth watching if you like Korean cinema and want to see a realistic bloody action thriller with some dark moments that you don't often see in western productions.
Dale Haufrect
"No Tears for the Dead" is a modern day thriller set in Korea. It is partly in English and the rest is in Korean with subtitles. The film is from 2014 and it is currently on NetFlix Instant Download Streaming. It is written and directed by Jeong-beom Lee. The actors include Dong- gun Jang, Min-hee Kim, Brian Tee, Hee-won Kim, Jun Sung Kim, Jennifer Buttell, Yo-han Byeon, Alessandro Cuomo, Darell M. Davie, Anthony Diio, Christopher Hackney, Alexander Stephen Kabel, Dana Lee, Sung-wok Min, Kang Han Na, Tich Ting, Alex Wrath. The movie is about a hit man from America's mid-west who is of Korean decent. When he botches what was supposed to be his last job by killing an innocent kid, he is sent to Korea to fix what he screwed up by killing the kid's mother. It sounds a bit like a fish out of water story, but the movie only proves that the crime world is the crime world no matter what country you are from. Some of the criminals were speaking up to three different languages, but in the crime game there are only two languages in you really need to know
money and guns. I gave it a score of 6 stars. Dale Haufrect
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