psiko giler lee bun hyun + pembunuh bersiri lakonan choi min-sik...
aku baru tgk..aku bg 9.0/10
tp -1.0 point sbb byk obscenity, pornography (uncensored ) dan violence.....otak aku tak leh terima sgt bunuh-membunuh tanpa belas kasihan ni:@
mod klu dh ade, merge ek..tq
F*CK*NG KICK AZZ VERY INTENSE,NAIL BITTING FLICK,EVEN THE FIRST OPENNING SENCE,THE CHICK IN THE CAR!!!!
GREAT CAST,ACTING WITH SHOCKING & VERY DISTURBING BATTLE BETWEEN THESE TWO GUYS TILL END!
lain kali jgn biarkan pembunuh siri hidup, kau nak bg die extremely pain smpi die mati
tp last2 keluarga bekas isteri yg mati tu plak jadi mangsa pembunuhan berikutnya
"I Saw The Devil" is a highly charged, tense film that left me exhausted by the end of the screening . I guess for people who have yet to see the film they may wonder how it compares to "The Chaser" one of the best films of the genre in recent years. Well ... it doesn't really compare because "The Chaser" is about chasing down a killer & "I Saw The Devil" is about inflicting pain/revenge on a killer. If looked in this way, the movie was more comparable to "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance" - the quintessential revenge flick for myself.
Script wise, I feel "I Saw the Devil" is a few notches below "The Chaser" or "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance" in complexity or creativity, but that's not to say the screenplay sucked. Storyline was fluid, swift, and did have me guessing throughout most of the movie. I guess I just felt it was less elegant than the two prior mentioned films & a little bit less fresh.
Action/Violence wise the film is juiced up like Mark McGwire circa 1998 - meaning its on a whole other level than those prior mentioned films. Is that a good or bad thing? Guess that's a personal thing. Having watched the film and grimaced & squirmed throughout it pretty much filled up my tolerance level for that. Any more and it would have felt gratuitous. So I'm actually grateful the film had to go through three different re-edits to get it to screen in Korea.
Performances by Lee Byung-Hun and Choi Min-Sik were as expected ace. Choi Min-Sik's performance in particular will likely be etched in people's mind. He could have played his character even more over the top which could have come across as hammy, but instead he came across as the pure incarnation of evil. Make no doubt about it, that dude is as scary as any boogie man you'll find in any horror movie.
If someone asks me if they should watch "I Saw the Devil" I would answer "definitely - as long as you can tolerate the gruesome violence". I have yet to watch a Kim Ji-Woon film that left me disappointed and "I Saw the Devil" certainly doesn't disappoint - just as long as you can stomach all that gore & violence. The production company did state that the film hoped to place the viewer within the viewpoint of the victims so they could experience the need for vengeance like Lee Byung-Hun's character did.
kesan filem ni begitu besar smpi aku tak leh lupa kekejaman yg dilakukan pembunuh bersiri ni...
TIFF Review: I SAW THE DEVIL
POSTED BY THE MAD HATTER mcneilmatinee.com
There's that old line about needing to fight fire with fire...that to defeat evil you must become evil yourself. Seldom has that notion been better told than in I SAW THE DEVIL, the latest film from Korean director Kim Ji-Woon.
The film focuses on a killer - a man named Kyung-chul played by Oldboy himself, Min-sik Choi. He kills randomly, with no pattern or purpose, and one night kills a young women just moments after she hangs up the phone with her fiancee Soo-hyun. Unfortunately for Kyung-chul, this was the wrong move, since Soo-hyun is so devastated by her murder, that he comes looking for him to reap his own brand of justice.
Soo-hyun isn't just looking to find Kyung-chul and kill him - an eye for an eye as it were. No, he wants Kyung-chul to feel every ounce of pain that he and his lost love felt and continue to feel. Thus the two become involved in a wickedly vicious game of catch-and-release.
As I mentioned in the podcast, this could easily be the most violent movie I have ever watched. Kim Ji-Woon makes you feel every stab and slice, and employs some of the most painful tricks imaginable. While the cut I saw is likely not going to be the cut that plays to the masses, it's still gonna be a tough go - so don't say I didn't warn you.
Violence aside, its the story of I SAW THE DEVIL that's so enticing. This is not just a manhunt, but a game between two twisted men who seem to have lost all regard for society's rules. They find themselves playing a twisted game of cat-and-mouse, and neither one really seems all that interested in actually winning so much as they want to see how long they can keep playing.
Dark and demented as it all is, it has a certain poetry about it that keeps you with the movie when you might otherwise walk out/turn off the dvd. It is perfectly constructed and even keeps the viewer engaged past the point where it feels like the film should end...but it doesn't end because there's still one more step to take.
Quite simply, the film is an amazing watch...just don't say I didn't warn you.
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“Nothing will go wrong,” is about the must amusing thing to ever hear in a Kim Ji Woon film. The director has made a number of films spanning a number of genres and they are about just about everything going terribly, terribly wrong. Even if the players fancy themselves in control of the situation. Here we have a methodical (Oldboy‘s Choi Min Sik) but unhinged killer of young women, who drives a small school bus and has a torture dungeon for scattering body parts across town. When he kills the fiancée of a state policeman (A Bitter Sweet Life‘s Lee Byung-Hun) he gets far more than he bargained for. Instead of spending his grief-time mourning the loss of his beloved, he uses that time to go full vigilante, initially soliciting help from the victims father (also a retired cop), but rapidly killing and torturing his way to cut through the red tape of typical police work. But, as is the mantra of the film, ‘we are just getting started’, the agent does not want to capture or kill his enemy, he wants to make him suffer in every way possible. Things do not go according to plan, and thus a back and forth of people doing terrible things to each other escalates to a point where the film moves well beyond serial killer movie clichés because nothing quite this charismatically sadistic has been done in the genre at this point. I Saw The Devil is a movie of oneupmanship usually reserved for comedies – here it is a oneupmanship of tragedies that ripple outward from the two crazy men at the center.
A quiet snowy night, a car driving slowly along the road, illumination of the rear-view mirror and the shape of the wiper makes the vehicle’s windshield look both angry and sad. Despite all the mayhem on screen the film is ultimately about the state of mind of both men. Angry and sad. Was Choi Min Sik’s psycho a naïve revolutionary gone horribly awry? Was Lee Byung-Hun’s too-career-driven state of existence the reason for her unfortunate moment of bad timing? Crazy is relative, but both are indeed crazy. To say that Kim Ji-Woon has control of the visual style of his latest film is an understatement. The film is kinetic, gory, and grimly amusing, and it could be the crazier cousin of David Fincher’s Seven (or more apropos, The Game) or a fourth entry in Park Chan-Wook’s vengeance trilogy. Yet the film is not quite up to snuff in terms of brains or spiritual content. The movie is a ‘ride,’ it might as well have a “versus” in the title, Choi Min-Sik vs. Lee Byung-Hun. The actors work wonderfully together, there is certainly chemistry as they hack each other to bits, if that is the right word. A return to the familiar for Choi Min Sik after taking a few years off acting for industry reasons; he lets it all hang out. His killer aggressive and bloody, yet retains a off-kilter sense of humour and smarter than he behaves. Lee Byung-Hun is his usual icy and precise self. He has to go to some pretty dark places, the film is ultimately a tragedy of his own self-making.
Anyone expecting to find deeper spiritual or moral probing along the lines of Park Chan-Wook’s trilogy is asking too much. It seems that Kim Ji-Woon has been on the path where his films get less deep and more in love with their own excesses with each entry. Sure he crosses genres with each film, but if you look at the intersection of family and fairy tale in A Tale of Two Sisters, something that was handled with a fair bit of nuance, and compare that to the greed verses united nation angle in The Good The Bad The Weird, hopefully you see where I am coming from. Kim’s films, I Saw The Devil included, remain fun and exciting affairs, but do not engage the brain or the soul much beyond the basic concept. Case in point: the film never really develops beyond Lee’s becoming the devil to defeat the devil and all the collateral damage done (family, innocent bystanders, you name it) in that single-minded quest. Is doing all this evil enough to be justified by a promise and love? It is a not a difficult question to answer after the film is over. The uncut version showed at the Toronto International Film Festival and it is about as bloody and gory (and oddly enough, glossy) a serial killer movie that I can recall. I’m sure someone will make a bloodier and gorier movie, that is the way these things work, but that does not change the fact that this is probably the current benchmark, Korean cinema or otherwise. Since the concept is rather ludicrous to begin with, it is easy to let go and see the crazy places the story is going to dig into.
I Saw The Devil DIRECTED BY KIM JI-WOON (SOUTH KOREA, SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS)
By John Semley torontoist.com
Kim Ji-Woon’s I Saw The Devil manages successfully what James Gunn’s Super botches utterly, i.e. satisfactorily responding to the moral quagmires essential to, but almost always effaced by, a popular mode of ultra-violent genre cinema. Where Gunn lazily addresses the sadism inherent in American caped crusader pictures, Kim’s latest undertakes a similar program with the vigilante revenge thrillers that have come to dominate South Korea’s genre film renaissance of the past decade or so.
His first step is casting Choi Min-Sik, the scorned badass from Park Chan-Wook’s crossover hit Oldboy, as deranged serial killer Kyung-chul, a school bus driver who ruthlessly abducts and tortures young women before scattering their dismembered body parts across the countryside, as if to goad the inept police (another recurring theme in the last ten years of South Korean thrillers). But when he offs the fiancée of government agent Soo-hyun (Lee Byung-hun), he finds himself squarely on the receiving end of some gritty, Oldboy-style vengeance.
Instead of just tracking down and killing (or turning in) Kyung-chul, Soo-hyun severely injures him, sets him free, and then locates him again to repeat the brutal beatdown. His decision to keep the killer alive (“We’ve only just begun,” Soo-hyun coldly repeats) leads to more bodies piling up, until the cops—struggling diligently to pull their heads out of their asses—are on the trail of two unhinged murderers. Both leads turn in remarkable performances, but Choi Min-Sik bursts back onto the Korean film scene with his own brand of vengeance, gobbling up scenery with mesmerizing aplomb. I Saw The Devil is a remarkable thriller, easily the best to come out of South Korea since Bong Joon-ho’s Memories of Murder, ferociously upending the genre’s well-worn boilerplate with unflinching conviction.
September 14, 2010
Review: I Saw The Devil
Posted by Katarina Gligorijevictiff2010.thetfs.ca
Kim Ji-woon, the director of 2008’s The Good, the Bad, the Weird, is back with a clever and very bloody cat-and-mouse thriller. Two of South Korea’s biggest talents square off against each other in a brutal vengeance game. Choi Min-sik (the tragic hero of Park Chan-wook’s 2003 masterpiece, Oldboy) plays Kyung-chul, a cold blooded serial killer who drives a school bus by day and dismembers his victims by night. When the young woman he captures turns out to be the daughter of a retired police chief and the fiancé of a secret service agent, the tables are turned and the hunter becomes the prey.
Soo-hyun, the secret agent fiancé, is played with restraint and much under-the-surface rage by Lee Byung-hun (who played ‘the Bad’ in The Good, the Bad, the Weird). He begins to track the serial killer and toy with him in increasingly brutal ways, forcing him to endure some fraction of the suffering he’s inflicted on others. However, this is no run of the mill serial killer, and soon Soo-hyun finds himself in way over his head, ill equipped to play the kinds of mind games that psychopaths relish.
I Saw The Devil is a taut thriller and a great tale of revenge, and it’s also very violent. Perhaps the bloodiest film you’re ever likely to see outside of the Midnight Madness programme, it includes many scenes that may test an audience that doesn’t expect graphic bludgeonings in their festival fare.
While the violence is frequent and intense, it’s also very effective. Gorgeously shot and sharply edited, I Saw The Devil achieves a balance between shocking and challenging the audience. With each film, Kim Ji-Woon (who also directed A Tale of Two Sisters and Bittersweet Life) is getting tighter and better. Truly one of the most original voices out of Korea, which is pretty jam packed with cinematic talent anyway.
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