Frustrating Crime Thriller
I've had great luck with Korean crime thrillers. These have been some of the best movies I've seen. I like this one enough, but for me, the script suffered under mediocre directing.
Here's the scoop. A criminal forensics expert is brought in on a case where a dead girl's body is found. They catch the perp right off. Problem is, he has the expert's daughter hostage and now the expert needs to doctor the evidence to get the killer off and save his daughter. Meanwhile there's a female newbie detective on the case that's too sharp for her own good. How will she handle this conundrum?
This is a really clever script that's laid out really well. The viewer is set up early on so it's a matter of who will rule the day in the end. At a certain level it's like the movie "Insomnia" where you have a veteran detective trying to cover up his own crime, while the rookie babe, who admires him very much, is put in the position of having to bring him down. This faltered on the...
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