Saturday, June 25, 2022

The Suspect (2014)

  I tried to watch this once before on Tubi but the video quality was so poor I ended up giving up about 30 minutes in.  Should have taken that as a sign.

Ji Dong-Chul (Yee Gong) defected from North Korea to the South.  Working as a chauffeur, he secretly looks for the government agents that killed his family, but is forced to go on the run after his boss is murdered.  He doesn't even want to clear his name, per se, just to find the truth about what happened to his wife and daughter.

You know I love Asian action films.  This is not a good one.  I could forgive the cliche-ridden story, but the real crime here is the editing.  A ferret on cocaine could have put together more coherent action sequences.  My suggestion would be to take some Dramamine before you watch this.  Or better yet, don't watch this.  There are so many better Korean movies.  It's currently streaming on Freevee, which used to be called IMDbTV, on Amazon.  So not only are your eyes going to be assaulted by whiplash editing, you'll have to sit through annoying commercials as well.

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