Korea (2010)
Starring: Bin Won, Sae-ron Kim, Hyo-seo Kim
Ajeossi was unique. It certainly isn't the typical bullet ballad or is it a straight kick ass movie, but it has aspects of both. The beginning is a little slow, but when the action starts to kick in the pace changes completely.
As the movie starts it opens up defining this awkward relationship between a pawn shop owner that shuts most of the world out and a little girl that is without friends or a father. There's speculation due to his seclusion that the pawnshop owner is a sexual predator, but we soon learn that is far from the truth.
From one silent good deed to the next he takes care of the little girl till her mother betrays the wrong group of people and she is kidnapped. From then on this silent pawn shop owner goes up against gangs, villains, organ harvesters, police, and his own past. . . when all the forces at work in the movie come together there's one spectacular bang.
The Man from Nowhere touches on some subjects that we all wish didn't exist. In some very blunt ways it depicts the atrocities committed by organ harvesters, the dark underworld of gangs and drugs, and the violence created by these shady paths of life. This movie is super graphic and will leave you going WTF? a few times. To me it is in a small way a reminder of the acts committed against other humans on a daily basis, we should all be so lucky as to never see this part of life in reality.
With that said, the choreography is done well. The cinematography is also pretty good. Every person in the movie had a foul mouth and the way things were translated gave me a good laugh. It could be the movie was actually written that way and it was designed to interject humor through dialog - I would welcome someone's opinion who can understand it in it's native language. All in all I'm glad I watched it. If you want to see it in English though, I'd go for the subtitled version instead of the dubbed one - the audio on the dubbed version is all kinds of horrible.
Quote: He didn't flinch when I shot the gun.
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