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This Korean thriller with a tricky name borrows some ideas from "Silence of the Lambs", but takes the story into its own territory, adding unexpected twists and turns. Despite poor English subtitles adding guesswork on the viewer's part, it's still a compelling story that keeps you guessing until the end.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
02/09/23
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More potential then exicution. not a good ending at all. dull camera work and a real slow pacing, never really felt the intensity
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars
02/18/23
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H (Jong-hyuk Lee, 2002)
Se7en Meets Silence of the Lambs! crows the cover art, obviously written for an American audience, that adorns this movie at Netflix. I read a review on IMDB from a person who mentions that overseas box art compares the film to Tellmisseomding. All of these comparisons have teeth, but as this movie progressed, I found myself thinking more and more of Kyua, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's immensely entertaining supernatural take on ...Lambs. H is not as good a movie as any of the above, but its problems are relatively minor and if you're looking for a fun locked-room murder mystery, this will fill the bill nicely.
Shin-hyun (Marathon's Seung-woo Cho), a serial killer, turns himself in and is locked up. Everything seems great...until a year later, when two recent crimes are uncovered that bear the marks of being Shin-hyun's work. The only problem is that he was in prison when they occurred. So the two detectives who were originally assigned to the case, Mi-yun Kim (Tellmisseomding's Jung-ah Yum) and Tae-hyun Kang (Perhaps Love's Jin-hee Ji in her first screen appearance), hit the bricks to see if they can figure out whether they've got a copycat on their hands, or whether Shin-hyun is masterminding what could be an entire network of serial killers from behind bars. Or whether the answer is something even weirder...
It's quite a slick little film that wears its influences on its sleeve maybe a little too much; it tries to make up for this by coming up with a bang-up plot twist, and for what it's worth, they did a good job at it. The Big Reveal(TM) here is an interesting take on a couple of stock plot twists, but I don't think I've ever seen them combined in quite this way before (though I can identify three or four things that might have been direct influences). That's ultimately not enough to balance the weight of the movie's derivative nature, but as long as you're willing to put that to the side, it's a well-acted, well-presented little movie, and you won't feel you've wasted two hours after watching it. ***
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
02/11/23
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H is a gruesome Korean thriller, which "borrows" many ideas from Silence of the Lambs. A man who commits brutal murders of pregnant women is imprisoned, the murders keep happening. The detectives of the case then constantly interview the man trying to solve the puzzle. If SOtL never existed, this would be much more appreciated. I did predict the ending early on, and much of the acting was overdone, but something about this film touched me. I think the uniqueness was the tension between detectives, the back to backs got almost as brutal as the crime. The film was gory from the start, and not for people with a weak stomach. I wouldn't confuse this for anything good, but it was a worthy watch. The rating is generous, but I can't go lower.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
01/12/23
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so twisted... but give credit to the acting.
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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
02/16/23
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H tries too hard to copy the tropes of the average American detective thriller, but the acting is flat and the ending is both predictable and ridiculous. Its only redeeming quality is the gore, even though the gore more or less ends within the first 20 minutes.
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Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars
02/27/23
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