Title: Boksuneun naui geot
Year: 2002 (Korea), 2005 (US)
Director: Chan-wook Park
Writers: Jae-sun Lee, Mu-yeong Lee, Yong-jong Lee, Chan-wook Park
Starring: Kang-ho Song, Ha-kyun Shin, Du-na Bae
Music: non-original music (as far as I can tell)
Length: 129 minutes
Synopsis: a kidnapping gone wrong leads to violence
How I saw it: on video (rented from Netflix), today
Subjective Rating: 5/10 (Indifferent).
Objective Rating: 8/10 (points off for characters and pacing) c. 2.9/4 (Good).
Very slow. Interesting, but no fun. Basically a series of unpleasant things are happening around a pair of unsympathetic characters. It's not a bad story, but it's far too miserable and joyless for me.
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