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The crew of a fishing boat is hired to smuggle illegal immigrants from China to Korea.
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Chuck Bowen Slant Magazine 03/20/2015
2/4
The politics of the boat as it reaches calamity are mostly reduced to a singular urge to kill one character. Go to Full Review
A.A. Dowd AV Club 09/11/2014
C+
What Shim needed was a steady escalation of tension, as well as characters a little easier to connect to. Go to Full Review
Maggie Lee Variety 09/10/2014
Adeptly transferring a stage play to th escreen, Shim achieves a highly cinematic effect despite the confined mise-en-scene ... Go to Full Review
Alberto Abuín Espinof 08/31/2019
The film feels interesting and new, with some odd comic notes, about fisherman's life in difficult times. [Full Review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
C.J. Prince Way Too Indie 06/06/2019
7/10
Shim Sung-Bo handles the film's sharp tonal shifts with ease, and with the help of cinematographer Hong Kyeong-pyo sustains an eerie mood once the thick sea fog envelops the boat and its surroundings. Go to Full Review
Panos Kotzathanasis Asian Movie Pulse 04/06/2019
The film initiates as a social drama, but, from a point on, it transforms into claustrophobic, violent thriller, with the fog surrounding the boat being one of the most important factors in the shaping of this atmosphere Go to Full Review
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jjjjjj j 05/21/2022 This film went to far for too little. It has some interesting themes and ideas but says little about them in favor of shock. Relying on the inhumanity of actions to drive the emotion of this film instead of quality plot and development. See more 02/22/2020 Great thrill of a ride. It's worth the watch! See more 09/27/2019 You may understand what is going on with refugees on the sea. See more 11/21/2017 The movie did reel me in by the plot, but it got boring quickly. The ending disappointed me. I wouldn't watch it again, simply put. See more 05/14/2017 The captain of a South Korean fishing trawler is offered his biggest payday yet. All he has to do is pick up a bunch of Chinese refugees off the mainland of China and bring them to South Korea. He takes the job and initially everything goes well. However, the plans are thrown into disarray when tragedy strikes... Interesting drama. Plot starts and develops well. The event that changes the course of the plot is shown in a semi-sympathetic light towards the crew and captain and you get the feeling it is going to be story about how the crew manage to evade the authorities, and smooth things over with their paymasters. However, from a point the movie takes a romantic turn, and an idealistic turn, and this reduces it from a crew vs the authorities movies to a much more conventional good guys vs bad guys film. The multi-layered shades of gray is replaced a one-dimensional black-and-white. This takes the lustre off the movie to an extent. Is still reasonably entertaining in the end, but had the potential to be something great. See more 03/17/2017 It was just suspense after suspense and just when I thought it will finally end with a happy ending, then came the huge twist! At first I couldn't fully unrated what's happening but after reading reviews, I was blown away by the ending. It's genius!! Wow this is just such an amazing movie. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis The crew of a fishing boat is hired to smuggle illegal immigrants from China to Korea.
Director
Shim Sung-bo
Producer
Jo Neung-yeon, Lewis Taewan Kim
Screenwriter
Shim Sung-bo, Bong Joon Ho
Production Co
Lewis Pictures, Off Screen, July Film
Genre
Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
Korean
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 27, 2016
Runtime
1h 51m
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