The Suspect

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The Suspect

2013

2h 17m

Action

Mystery & Thriller

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Michael Nordine

L.A. Weekly

Witnessing this play out is more exhausting than exciting.

Dec 17, 2015

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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

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Dante R

Excellent the Asian Jason 👏🏾 bourne

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

12/04/24

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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

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Audience Member

Great story. Awesome action scenes

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/27/23

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Audience Member

The best Korean movie.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/13/23

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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

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Korean action movies are the real reason for having netflix

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/20/23

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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: Im Sang-yun, Lee Cheon-hyeong
Production Co: Green Fish Pictures, Showbox
Genre: Action, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: Korean
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 10, 2016
Runtime: 2h 17m

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