progenicswoolf
10 points for this movie the story of this movie was incredible comparing it with John Wick the truth surprised me a lot.
Aaron Gertler
"The Man From Nowhere" has been compared to "The Professional", but in this case, the killer-child relationship is mostly at a distance, without much time for a bond to develop beyond cliches about bad mothers and cool guys who can't display positive emotions. The movie has lots of great individual moments involving knives, tasers, bathrooms, and driving ranges, but most of the characters (including our protagonist) are too cliched to take us beyond a collection of cool action shots. The police subplot slows the film dramatically (this would've been better at 90 minutes, with the cops gone almost completely), and the ending is totally unsatisfying. Skip it unless you're specifically into Korean action thrillers.
dara-fink
I am a great Luc Besson fan, but this is the film that 'Leon : The Professional" aspires to. The story is told in a restrained and logical fashion. It is gory and gritty, but as appropriate to the genre.A warning to the faint hearted, however: it is brutal in the action scenes. Not gratuitous like Peckinpah, but still chillingly graphic. It's gore and grit are very appropriate to this genre.I was prepared for a light, illogical action flick and got a layered story with superb acting! The cinematography was top notch.The police and the 'evil henchmen' are cardboard mockups of characters, which helps the viewer detach from worst of the carnage. This is high on my 'watch again' list!
japrice-26876
This film is definitely my favorite foreign film so far this year. The film is about a man, Cha Tae-sik who lives a quiet life running a pawn shop. He is loner whose only friend is a little girl, So-mi, who lives next door. So-mi is a loner like Cha Tae-sik who can take care of herself and steal really well. So-mi's mother, Hyo-jeong, is a heroin addict who stole drugs from a notorious korean-vietnamese drug gang and never provides or protects her daughter So-mi. Two gangsters go to Tae-sik's pawn shop and attempt to take a package from him through force and guns, but Tae-sik easily overpowers them scaring them with his speed. Eventually the mother is caught beaten and kidnapped along with her daughter So-mi. Once Tae-sik finds out he goes on a quest to save them. In his search he finds other children being used to make drugs and deliver them. He saves them and kills one of the drug lords brothers which causes the other to become furious threatening to rip So-mi's eyes out and kill her. He eventually finds out the So-mi's mother has been killed, and they tell him that they harvested So-mi's eyes and killed her, this enrages Tae-sik and he heads out on a hunt for the drug-lord . Once he arrives he is given a jar of eyeballs(that are not So-mi's) and thinks that they belong to So-mi. This leads him to kill every drug member by either shooting them, or slowly slitting their wrists. He catches his breath and formulates some thoughts. He rationalizes the situation and does not see another option than to kill himself. So he has his gun to his head and is about to shoot himself. When suddenly So-mi appears from the shadows, untouched with both eyes.
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