7/10
Korean man on fire
23 September 2012
The mysterious Tae-Sik Cha (Bin Won) has grown attached to his precocious neighbor So-Mi (Sae-ron Kim) despite her drug-addled mum's objection. The latter's involvement in stealing narcotics from major heavies' results in So-Mi's being kidnapped. Tae-Sik is inadvertently thrust into seedy world of drugs trade & human organ harvesting syndicate. But the brooding hero possess array of unique skills to take on the baddies and rescue So-Mi.

Shades of Shane (1953) and Man on Fire (1987) in terms of story but this South Korean actioner has immaculate productions values and absorbing pace to maintain interest from beginning to end. And what about that tremendous climatic knife-fight culminating with bloody face-off against Thai actor Thanayong Wongtrakul playing the silent henchman.
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