Korean cinema is great, this is a solid work, packed with action and melodrama, but not the best of the best. It is a Korean version of movies such as Taken or Leon the Professional, a tad sentimental, but there is not much original other than routine film making of high quality. Not really a revenge flick, it follows a story of some Korean guy, ex agent of a particular set of skills which include some Asian marital arts, used in moderation, who wants to save some girl of a junkie neighbor mother. The baddies sell organs and drugs, the police is incompetent mostly, the story is a bit cheesy and nonsensical, not that such things do not happen (say, Albanian thugs did that in Yellow house, no surprises that Taken had chosen them), but it is all filmed in nice, clean cut way like clean cut are the muscles of the Asian middle aged lead, supposedly, eye candy for some parts of the society that once could not vote. Shallow and stylish, but not as shallow nor as stylish as John Wick. Do not expect much more than some nicely shot mindless fun.
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