I Saw the Devil

[Nolando Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Nolando]

It's getting high praise as a fanatical revenge movie.

http://www.slashfilm.com/i-saw-the-d...-band-trailer/

Anyone else stoked on this?

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

Huh. The guy who directed A Bittersweet Life (which I loved) and A Tale Of Two Sisters (which was pretty but slow) with the dudes from Old Boy and The Good, The Bad And The Weird. Keen.

That trailer sold me.

[Alison Jane Girl Boss Jane Find all posts View Profile Close Alison Jane]

I would see anything with Oldboy in it. That guy's awesome.

I haven't seen many Korean movies lately....

[Nolando Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Nolando]

And I feel like I've seen a bunch (the Vengeance series, Thirst, The Good the Bad and the Weird).

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

Have you seen A Bittersweet Life? I think you'd dig it.

[Nolando Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Nolando]

Nope - who dat? You said the same director as this?

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

Yup. The first half is a bit slow but it errupts into an awesome Woo-style finale and has a lot of good, brooding drama along the way.

Surprisingly, I don't think it ever got a legit release stateside (I have the Korean one) but it got bootlegged pretty quickly and is easy enough to find.

[Nolando Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Nolando]

Adding it to the list - thanks!

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

Just for the record, this movie contains a lot of radness.

[Toyboy like a hole in the head Find all posts View Profile Close Toyboy]

The scene in the doctor's office was especially rad. Min-sik Choi is like the Korean Anthony Wong.

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

He's certainly turning out that way lately. He's pretty awesome in this one. The really upped the level of violence in this too, it's gory as hell.

[Mike T Guest Find all posts View Profile Close Mike T]

Choi Min-sik is like the Korean Anthony Wong.

That's like the coolest simile ever, because it's true. Both are great actors and can do amazing serious work, but both do great OTT bad guys.
I must see this film -- I see it's not long been released on BD in the UK in the 144m version. I shall investigate, soon...

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

The DTS-HD on the Magnolia Region A disc kicks all kinds of ass.

[Alison Jane Girl Boss Jane Find all posts View Profile Close Alison Jane]

I really want to watch this again. It doesn't have the depth or wtf factor of Oldboy, but the violence and emotion in it is just awesome.

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

The sheer determination of Lee Byung-hun's character makes this one for me, which is an interesting contrast to Choi Min-Sik's completely unrepentant asshole of a bad guy. It's pretty cool the way the movie parallels the two, and the movie is very clever in that way, in addition to being impressively violent.

More people need to see this movie.