Twitch weren't so complimentary about it:<br><br><a href="http://www.twitchfilm.net/archives/010242.html">http://www.twitchfilm.net/archives/010242.html</a><br><br>Don Brown<br><a href="http://www.ryuganji.net">www.ryuganji.net
</a><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/6/6, Stefan Nutz <<a href="mailto:nuzumaki@gmx.net">nuzumaki@gmx.net</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">For those on the list, like me 5 minutes ago,
who haven't heard anything of a new Sai Yoichi film, here some
information. I was a little</font></div>
<div><font size="2"><font face="Arial">surprised that he is now back in Korea making
movies. His new one is called "Soo" (Su, <font color="#333366"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: nowrap;">Όφ) and Sai, or better Choi Han-il
</span></font></font></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><font color="#333366" size="2"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: nowrap;">(also credited as Choi Yang-il),
</span></font><font color="#333366"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: nowrap;"><font size="2">did the screenplay as
well.</font> <font size="2">It will be interesting to see how Sai's career
will develope in the upcoming</font></span></font></font></font></div>
<div><font><font face="Arial"><font color="#333366" size="2"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: nowrap;">years - in case he stays in Korea.
</span></font></font></font></div>
<div><font color="#333366" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: nowrap;"></span></font> </div>
<div><font color="#333366"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: nowrap;"><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">Synopsis:<br>Soo is in the business of solving problems. When his brother
Tae-jin is killed by a gang, he takes his brother's identity to seek
revenge.<br>Source </font><a href="http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><font face="Arial" size="2">http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr</font></a></span></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: nowrap;"></span></font> </div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: nowrap;">More
information:</span></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.hancinema.net/korean_movie_Soo.php" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.hancinema.net/korean_movie_Soo.php</a></span></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: nowrap;"></span></font> </div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: nowrap;"></span></font> </div>
<div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: nowrap;"><font face="Arial" size="2">It's bloody
and brutal, and harrowingly so. Japanese-born Korean director Choi Yang-il
(Yoichi Sai) brings the Korean audience </font></span></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: nowrap;"><font face="Arial" size="2">a
hardboiled vengeance film with a slightly different flavor. When you think of
blood-splattered retaliation, Park Chan-wook's vengeance
</font></span></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: nowrap;"><font face="Arial" size="2">trilogy or
Quentin Tarantino's ``Kill Bill'' series may come to mind. But imagine such a
film stripped of fancy cinematographic techniques </font></span></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: nowrap;"><font face="Arial" size="2">and devoid
of stylishly choreographed action sequences. Every gesture and grimace is
meticulously planned, according to the director.<br>But Choi keeps the camera at
a certain distance to portray the no-cut skirmishes. The product is heightened
realism, and you believe in the </font></span></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: nowrap;"><font face="Arial" size="2">brutal
violence and the raw human instinct for survival. Tae-su (Ji Jin-hee) is a
notorious hit man called Soo, who waits 19 years to finally
</font></span></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: nowrap;"><font face="Arial" size="2">reunite
with his long-lost twin brother Tae-jin _ only to watch him get shot in front of
his very eyes. Revenge becomes Soo's sole reason for </font></span></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: nowrap;"><font face="Arial" size="2">breathing,
as he single-handedly sets out to hunt down his brother's murderer. Here, the
movie slips into major traps of common plot </font></span></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: nowrap;"><font face="Arial" size="2">elements:
identical twins the striking opposite of each other _ one good, the other bad _
and the woman that falls in love with both of them. <br>If you're craving
something purely ``hardboiled,'' think again. There is a unique combination of
raw and primitive crudeness and </font></span></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: nowrap;"><font face="Arial" size="2">unexpected
tenderness to the movie, however. Knives take the place of guns, the usual
choice of weapon in contemporary action films, </font></span></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: nowrap;"><font face="Arial" size="2">and Soo
embodies all the animalistic human instinct for survival and safety. In a
desperate struggle to stay alive, Soo unhesitatingly </font></span></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: nowrap;"><font face="Arial" size="2">scoops out
an enemy's eyeballs with his bare hands. But Soo degenerates from a
cool-headed and merciless professional killer into </font></span></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: nowrap;"><font face="Arial" size="2">a helpless,
guilt-ridden brother. Tae-su sports a sharp dagger to slash dozens of lives, but
it ceases to be a weapon when he falls </font></span></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: nowrap;"><font face="Arial" size="2">asleep with
it in his dead brother's bed. It is a material extension of a vengeful yet
shattered and lonely soul <br>There are in fact moments when you forget the
protagonist is a callous and an unfeeling killer. Soo is quiet and reserved when
not on </font></span></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: nowrap;"><font face="Arial" size="2">duty, and
is obedient in front of his boss, a fatherly figure. Soo draws sympathy from
viewers as he embraces his dead brother's body _ </font></span></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: nowrap;"><font face="Arial" size="2">it's
chilling as you see two identical faces, one lifeless and the other helpless.
Monologues addressed to Tae-jin throughout the movie </font></span></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: nowrap;"><font face="Arial" size="2">mark
Tae-su's tragic humaneness. There is also a comically surreal dimension to his
undying persistence. Attacked by bullets, clubs, </font></span></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: nowrap;"><font><font face="Arial" size="2">swords and hatchets, he manages to keep surviving. You stop grimacing at
the insensitive brutality past a certain point. <br>Source:<font color="#0000ff">
</font><a href="http://www.dvdasian.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">www.</a></font></font></span></font><font><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: nowrap;"><font><font face="Arial" size="2">
<a href="http://dvdasian.com">dvdasian.com</a></font></font></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">best,</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Stefan <br></font><a href="http://www.pageofmadness.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><font face="Arial" size="2">www.pageofmadness.com</font></a>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Don Brown<br><a href="http://www.ryuganji.net">www.ryuganji.net</a>