"The Man From Nowhere" has been compared to "The Professional", but in this case, the killer-child relationship is mostly at a distance, without much time for a bond to develop beyond cliches about bad mothers and cool guys who can't display positive emotions. The movie has lots of great individual moments involving knives, tasers, bathrooms, and driving ranges, but most of the characters (including our protagonist) are too cliched to take us beyond a collection of cool action shots. The police subplot slows the film dramatically (this would've been better at 90 minutes, with the cops gone almost completely), and the ending is totally unsatisfying. Skip it unless you're specifically into Korean action thrillers.
Review of The Man from Nowhere
