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The Suspect

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Betrayed and on the run, a North Korean agent (Gong Yoo) tries to uncover the volatile secrets hidden inside the eyeglasses of a dead man.
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Mark Jenkins Washington Post Director Won Sin-yeon skillfully emulates the you-are-there-but-where-the-heck-is-that? style of the "Bourne" movies. Rated: 2.5/4 Dec 17, 2015 Full Review Tom Keogh Seattle Times It's only January, yet perhaps not too soon to call "The Suspect" one of the best popcorn movies of the year. Rated: 3/4 Dec 17, 2015 Full Review Tirdad Derakhshani Philadelphia Inquirer It's grown-up, deadly serious, and free of the ham-handed romantic subplots that mire so many films from the region in ick stew. Rated: 2.5/4 Dec 17, 2015 Full Review Andrew Heskins easternKicks.com An utterly ridiculous and over-the-top action movie from director Won Shin-yeon (Seven Days, A Bloody Aria), but at least it knows what it is... Rated: 3.5/5 Sep 24, 2020 Full Review Michael Nordine L.A. Weekly Witnessing this play out is more exhausting than exciting. Dec 17, 2015 Full Review Daniel Eagan Film Journal International Handsomely mounted, the movie looks just like other big-budget blockbusters at first. But it doesn't take long to realize that The Suspect is imitation entertainment. Dec 17, 2015 Full Review Read all reviews

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Dick C Im Sang-yoon writes a good script... Won Shin-yun directs great for this motion picture, The Suspect, 2013... Gong Yoo portrays fairly good and Park Hee-soon also does his acting job... Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 06/11/22 Full Review Audience Member Great story. Awesome action scenes Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member The best Korean movie. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member I'm surprised that most critics ratings were higher than the general film-goer's, but I did enjoy it for what it was - an anti(?) hero out for a bloody payback and -surprisingly, perhaps the most frantic car chase scenes (two of them) that I've ever seen in a Korean crime film ....It felt like some movie company was out to break the bank with dozens of car wrecks (and why all those sleek -looking German VWs when Kias or Hyundais would have been enough?...I've noticed that while many Korean films are on the violent side, some do show a lot of sentimentality when it comes to "family values"...That was also embedded in this film (in a positive way).... Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Korean action movies are the real reason for having netflix Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Ji Dong-Cheol is a South Korean agent working undercover in North Korea. He is now suspected of being a double agent and the South Korean government want him eliminated. They send in their top counter-spy, an old adversary of Ji Dong-Cheol's. He now has to stay alive and prove his innocence. Had the potential to be an intriguing John Le Carre-style spy thriller. However, the plot is overwrought and ultimately uses style to cover up its lack of substance. Some of the acting is pretty woeful too. The Colonel was massively over-acted, to the point that even John Wayne would have found the performance over the top. Lead performance by Yoo Gong is fine though. On the plus side, some great action sequences, but that is pretty much what the director was aiming for all along - the style-over-substance approach. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Betrayed and on the run, a North Korean agent (Gong Yoo) tries to uncover the volatile secrets hidden inside the eyeglasses of a dead man.
Director
Won Sinyeon
Screenwriter
Park Jae-yung
Production Co
Green Fish Pictures, Musa Productions, Showbox
Genre
Action, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
Korean
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 10, 2016
Runtime
2h 17m
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