Stars: Dong-seok Ma, Mu-Yeol Kim, Sung-kyu Kim | Written and Directed by Lee Won-tae
Korean thriller The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil, hot off the press from its debut premiere at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival, hit Fantasia 2019 as a Quebec premiere. The film earned relatively positive reviews all round from several critics and publications. However, any film plays drastically different to paying audiences members, especially against the claustrophobic intensity of the Cannes worldview. Lee Won-tae directs only his second feature with The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil after his directorial debut Daejang Kimchangsoo (Man of Will). The director delivers a hard-hitting and at times, brutally vicious thriller that follows a thin definition of entertainment that is not too far from sadistic pleasure.
Both films from Lee Won-tae have a staggering amount of sadistic qualities concerning their plots. His sophomore effort, however, takes the cake with how far it is willing...
Korean thriller The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil, hot off the press from its debut premiere at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival, hit Fantasia 2019 as a Quebec premiere. The film earned relatively positive reviews all round from several critics and publications. However, any film plays drastically different to paying audiences members, especially against the claustrophobic intensity of the Cannes worldview. Lee Won-tae directs only his second feature with The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil after his directorial debut Daejang Kimchangsoo (Man of Will). The director delivers a hard-hitting and at times, brutally vicious thriller that follows a thin definition of entertainment that is not too far from sadistic pleasure.
Both films from Lee Won-tae have a staggering amount of sadistic qualities concerning their plots. His sophomore effort, however, takes the cake with how far it is willing...
- 7/22/2019
- by Jak-Luke Sharp
- Nerdly
The city of Seoul has been terrorized by a series of seemingly unrelated murders where the victims have been stabbed numerous times and were then left for dead. Among the many cops investigating is Jung Tae-seok (Kim Moo-yul), a clever but also quite tough police officer whose methods often get him into trouble with his superiors, especially when he is disrupting the business of crime lords such as Jang Dong-su (Don Lee). Since he is a powerful figure in the underworld he controls a majority of the business in various districts of the city as well as the police force who would never dare touch him.
However, the paths of cops and gangsters meet when Dong-su is attacked one night by an unknown assailant. Considering the pattern of the attack matches the modus operandi of the killer, both the police and the gangsters are hunting for the same man. Hopelessly...
However, the paths of cops and gangsters meet when Dong-su is attacked one night by an unknown assailant. Considering the pattern of the attack matches the modus operandi of the killer, both the police and the gangsters are hunting for the same man. Hopelessly...
- 7/14/2019
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Korean director Won-Tae Lee’s previous film was Man of Will, a period drama about the mistreatment of Korean prisoners. This latest outing is a whole other genre, a classic kick-ass cop movie with the great Dong-seok Ma in one of the lead roles.
As you might have gathered from the title, the three leads are Dong-seok Ma as the Gangster, a lumbering solid mass of trouble who runs illegal slot machine arcades and has his fingers in other pies across town. The Cop is Mu-Yeol Kim, a maverick officer who plays by his own rules. He is a constant thorn in the side of the Gangster but is frustrated by his boss being in cahoots with the mob, curtailing his ability to work. The Devil (Kim Sung Gyu) is a lone serial killer, setting up his kills by bumping into the back of his chosen victim’s car and...
As you might have gathered from the title, the three leads are Dong-seok Ma as the Gangster, a lumbering solid mass of trouble who runs illegal slot machine arcades and has his fingers in other pies across town. The Cop is Mu-Yeol Kim, a maverick officer who plays by his own rules. He is a constant thorn in the side of the Gangster but is frustrated by his boss being in cahoots with the mob, curtailing his ability to work. The Devil (Kim Sung Gyu) is a lone serial killer, setting up his kills by bumping into the back of his chosen victim’s car and...
- 5/23/2019
- by Jo-Ann Titmarsh
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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