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DVD Goo-reu-meul beo-eo-nan dal-cheo-reom
 Run time: 111 min Rating: 5.9 Genres: Action Director: Joon-ik Lee Writers: Seok-Hwan Choi, Cheol-Hyeon Jo Stars: Jeong-min Hwang, Seung-won Cha, Ji-hye Han |
| Storyline During a turbulent time when political upheaval, rebellion, and invasion are coming to a head two swordsmen are caught up in a violent and bloody struggle to seize control of the country they love. With their army of alliance standing behind them they will meet for the most important battle of their lives. Swords will be drawn while many lives are lost, but only one swordsman will walk away the new king of the land. Written by Elizabeth Obermeier, Marketing Manager |
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| Plot Keywords: based on graphic novel, based on comic book, based on comic, martial arts | |
| Details: Country: South Korea Release Date: 28 April 2010 (South Korea) |
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DVD Goo-reu-meul beo-eo-nan dal-cheo-reom
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I only write this (my first review on IMDb) because I totally disagree with the other two reviews here. This is an enjoyable movie about a (literally) bastard's (HAN Pil-joo) quest to kill his fathers murderer (LEE Mong-Hak). Pil-joo teams up with the Korean version of Zatoichi and sets out on his quest that will lead him to Mong-Haks courtesan girlfriend, and she'll team up as well. I really enjoyed this Korean take on Zatoichi, the scenery is beautiful and the props and costumes are very well made and all though some of the fighting scenes are quite cheesy the over all impression quite positive. The things I enjoyed most in this movie was the Zatoichi character and many very beautiful settings and I would recommend you to watch as well if you get the chance.
Posssessing only moments of greatness, this is a mostly unfocused story of a young man looking for revenge on the people who killed his father. He is aided by a blind swordsmen and the mistress of the man he's vowed to kill. The whole thing takes place during one of the Japanese invasions of Korea.
I originally saw this at the New York Asian Film Festival where it was the closing film. The print was indifferently subtitled with the title translated as Lades of Blood. It kind of went down hill from there. Seeing the film again on import DVD, the film does not have an official US release that I know of, I found it has some wonderful parts, but mostly it's very unfocused. Is it about the revenge story? How about the politics? What of the invasion? For get the invasion that only exists to set everything into clunky motion and to provide the WTF end of the film.
Yes the film has some great sword fights, but how they are filmed varies from fight to fight with the shaky-cam end fight annoying more than it thrills (it doesn't help since the end really is awful on it's own terms).
A terrible movie thats to be avoided.
It's really irritating when you find out the whole journey was basically for nothing and that is what this film is. Almost everything about it is pointless and redundant. It has some okay sword fighting, but that is very few and nothing about this movie was really engrossing. The trailer to this makes it seem like a complete different movie, but it's not. None of the characters really stood out and I just didn't give a crap what happens, and the plot isn't really convoluted or anything but felt all over the place. The idea and plot didn't even seem all that original and boring for the most part, the film tries to make the movie not bad as it may seem with the ending. But even the ending is basically WTF and not in a good way either.
4.3/10