Although this is a very well made and good film, I doubt it is one I'll remember for a long time. I'm not a big fan of the crime genre, as I often find it over-complicated. The film was also a bit slow moving and way too long. It would have moved at a much better pace if they were to cut about 20 minutes or so, especially since some scenes gave me a sense of deja vu.
Kang-ho Song is a very versatile actor and is good in everything he does (he stars in no less than 14 of Korea's top 50 box office films). The acting from the all-star cast in general was very good. I didn't really enjoy Kang-ho Song's character, Lee Jung-Chool, though, as one never knew how to place him. Was he a good cop or a bad cop? Was he good by nature or bad by nature? He was always sitting on the fence of being a cop or being a criminal and it confused matters.
The film only really gets very good from the time they are on the train, when there's action, suspense and suspicion galore. Throughout the film, the Resistance is selling various items in order to buy explosives and smuggling it into the country through Jung's antique store. Jung is brilliantly portrayed by Yoo Gong, who was equally brilliant in 'Train to Busan' and 'The Suspect'. The resistance leader Jung Chae-Sun (played by Byung-Hun Lee) was a very weak and underdeveloped character, whom I didn't really miss the moments he was not in the film. Yoo Gong stole the show for me.
I enjoyed the time period before modern technology.
Kang-ho Song is a very versatile actor and is good in everything he does (he stars in no less than 14 of Korea's top 50 box office films). The acting from the all-star cast in general was very good. I didn't really enjoy Kang-ho Song's character, Lee Jung-Chool, though, as one never knew how to place him. Was he a good cop or a bad cop? Was he good by nature or bad by nature? He was always sitting on the fence of being a cop or being a criminal and it confused matters.
The film only really gets very good from the time they are on the train, when there's action, suspense and suspicion galore. Throughout the film, the Resistance is selling various items in order to buy explosives and smuggling it into the country through Jung's antique store. Jung is brilliantly portrayed by Yoo Gong, who was equally brilliant in 'Train to Busan' and 'The Suspect'. The resistance leader Jung Chae-Sun (played by Byung-Hun Lee) was a very weak and underdeveloped character, whom I didn't really miss the moments he was not in the film. Yoo Gong stole the show for me.
I enjoyed the time period before modern technology.