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I was expecting a dumb martial film but got something much better.

This is an intelligent film covering the difficulty of maintain personal integrity against economic pressures and then moving into the difficulty of life during military occupation.

The cast all deliver good performances, everyone is believable and convincing.

The plot is compelling especially after the Japanese occupation begins, the real life elements give it more punch.

There are moments of sadness and a few surprises.

The martial arts is a little disjointed, sometimes a bit silly and over done and at others times simple and brutal, this inconsistent approach is a bit of a weakness in a heavily martial arts based film.

A times it feels preachy and jingoistic but never for long.

A surprisingly good film.

There is nothing new or interesting here, the plot is a mix of clichés with the twists being predictable and no suspense built up.

There is the question of who is causing the problems but all the main candidates are dismissed so quickly they might as well not have been there.

The acting is mixed, Hyeon-a Seong is good as the lead but Da-an Park is poor as the friend in the flashback sequences.

Far from improving things the final twist seems desperate and pathetic, the last cliché of a writer with no ideas.

Barely watchable, instantly forgettable.

The acting is excellent but nothing else.

Cette is just dull, I made several attempts to finish it but just couldn't.

The pace is beyond plodding, the characters are not likable or interesting. Bale is convincing but convincing doesn't mean entertaining.

I eventually got through the first hour and wondered why I was punishing myself with it. I really couldn't find anything to like about cette film.

Slow moving and dreary.

This is a mindless action flick dressed up as sci-fi.

It has some themes in common with common but lacks any of the intelligence or depth.

The pace is slow, very little happens for most of the film, flashes of action and violence but very formulaic and dull.

The characters are 2 dimensional, as you'd expect from an action flick.

The plot doesn't hang together very well and the clichés pile up continuously.

The ending is poor; we have the annoying cliché of the super villains, who earlier were so good one of them could slaughter a troop of soldiers without getting a bruise, suddenly turning into cannon fodder for the hero with all their speed and skill vanishing because now he is serious and angry! Some of the visuals are good but nothing original or spectacular.

This is pure paint-by-number, no vision or imagination, not terrible but never approaching good.

I was expecting something better, worth a glance if it's on TV and there is nothing else but not worth paying any money to watch.

Considering the subject matter I was a little nervous that this would become whiny or preachy but it does neither, it stays light-hearted and funny through-out.

The acting is good, Hyo-jin Kong delivers an excellent performance as the slightly demented lead and Seo Woo is surprisingly good as her partner in exile from normal society.

The plot is straight-forward with a mostly harmless but obsessed stalker trying to get her man while has no interest as well as a wife and another paramour.

There are lots of little bits of humour as the two girls plans progress and come close to working but not quite succeeding, the cyber sex scenes are especially funny.

This is all situational humour, no slap-stick or word play just characters doing things that seem normal to them but not to anyone else or situations that get out of control, and there is plenty of it.

The ending lets the film down a bit, the reveal with the wife has very little humour and goes on far too long.

Still an enjoyable comedy with some genuine laugh-out-loud moments.

This is a simple, very simple, fantasy film.

The central premise is OK, a buried evil being freed by a man seeking power.

The acting is bad, the two leads are OK but the rest of the cast are completely unconvincing especially the bee-keeper girl.

The fight scenes are very power rangers with lots of fake blood thrown in.

The creature is weird but in an almost funny way, they use cheap CGI and it looks like those 1960s films when such things were new, Jason and the Argonauts style.

The ending is predictable.

It's not an awful film, I didn't feel the need to switch it off, but it's not good.

This isn't a bad film but it isn't engaging, you have a good cast who have been told to act as if they have no emotions or personality, so there is no empathy; this isn't helped by the fact that some of the important events happen off-screen so whether people live or die is of no real concern to you, you just shrug and think "oh so that character is gone".

Bardem is quite creepy as the psychopath but Tommy Lee Jones is completely wasted, he just wanders around having no impact at all, this is deliberate, not bad acting, but still seems to be a waste.

The pace is good, there is always something happening and you never get completely bored.

The ending is good, darker than I expected and not a standard Hollywood finish but since you don't care who lives and dies it isn't enough to save the film.

Given the hype and the great reviews I was expecting something much better than this, it's simply an average forgettable film.

As you would expect from Chan-wook Park this is a strange film.

The film starts of with quite a bit of humour, some of it very dark, and with odd slapstick as we see the protagonist as not being exactly bright.

Unlike his later film which kept the humour even as the plot progressed and became darker in this one the humour vanishes once things start to go wrong.

The acting is excellent, Ha-kyun Shin and Kang-ho Song are superb particularly as things become more and more emotionally charged.

The violence is well timed and with one exception not very gruesome.

The plot does jump at times, skipping events and showing you the outcome, and that leaves you a bit disconcerted until you realise what must have happened, I found that a little annoying as it does leave you playing catch-up a couple of times.

The film gives you no clear villain or hero, you can fell sympathy for everyone involved and understand their motives.

The pace is good, and there are several twists and surprises towards the end.

It's better than Lady Vengeance but not as good as Oldboy or Thirst.

This is a complete waste of time.

The new material is not even slightly funny and the operatic style kills the humour of the old material.

The singing is good but not really suited to comedy. The music is good but again this is supposed to be comedy so that isn't very important.

There are some odd cameos that fail to be funny.

It ends with the crowd-pleasers like a concert.

If you like Monty Python then watch the film, if you don't like them this won't convert you.

The only positive is that watching this has convinced me to re-watch The Life of Brian just to clear this rubbish from my mind.

This film has a lot of clichés but it uses them quite well.

The pace is quick, there is plenty of action and violence.

The acting is good; Patric and Liotta deliver excellent performances are are convincing and believable.

There is a very annoying and completely unnecessary three minute section where we are subjected to a baby screaming, and although this is believable in terms of the plot and it wasn't required, I am glad I didn't have to sit through that in a cinema. The relationship side of things isn't very convincing in general but it isn't very important to the plot either.

The ending is good, it has a some predictable bits but also a little twist.

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