This is what happens if you take TAKEN and ratchet up the amount of violence and depravity, while mixing a little OLDBOY into the mix. It really plays on the idea of the consequences of revenge both to the world at large and to the person committing it. This film is relentless. That is the only way I can think to describe it — in it’s action, terror, the resolve of Kim Soo-hyun and in the need to kill in Jang Kyung-chul. The film also explores the idea of violence, specifically violence against women (similar to THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO ). Jang Kyung-chul just is alsothe embodiment of an incel. I hadn’t seen a Kim Jee-woon film before and it makes me want to check out his other stuff (Specifically THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE WEIRD and A TALE OF TWO SISTERS). Some of the shots in this are also just so beautiful.
