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      The Taste of Money

      2012 1h 54m Mystery & Thriller Drama List
      32% Tomatometer 19 Reviews 24% Audience Score 250+ Ratings The assistant of a wealthy socialite reveals her husband's salacious affair. The fallout entangles him in a web of sex, love and deceit that could threaten his life and career. Read More Read Less

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      Geoffrey Macnab Independent (UK) The director seems uncertain whether he is making a slow-burning character drama or a satirical gangster movie about modern-day Seoul's answer to the Borgias. Rated: 2/5 Feb 21, 2014 Full Review Mark Kermode Observer (UK) Sex, death, greed, corruption: they're all here in handsomely mounted and highly polished cases. Taste the money - smell the glove. Rated: 3/5 Oct 28, 2013 Full Review Donald Clarke Irish Times A veritable orgy of vulgar melodrama, The Taste of Money might pass as satire if the conclusions drawn were not so broad and unsurprising. Rated: 2/5 Oct 25, 2013 Full Review Andrew Heskins easternKicks.com Back when Im Sang-soo presented The Housemaid, he felt like he had more to say about the rich, but it's hard to tell what that is... Rated: 3/5 Sep 24, 2020 Full Review Simon Kinnear Total Film It feels like Im intended this as a moral fable. He should have played for laughs; material this blunt works best as satire. Rated: 3/5 Oct 28, 2013 Full Review Robert Makin Electric Sheep A glossy, heavy-handed soap opera with all the complexity of a four-piece jigsaw puzzle. Oct 24, 2013 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Liam D An sophisticated erotic thriller that has more story depth than just sex with some good performances from a talented cast members Rated 3 out of 5 stars 05/16/24 Full Review Audience Member Not a good film, but not so bad that it I stopped watching it. The main reason to watch is yet another amazing performance by Yoon Yeo-jeong. But even she can't really save this mess. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review jesse o Visually impressive but thematically hollow.  This film didn't do much for me as it was an absolute chore to sit through for most of its running time.  Personally, the story and the character development did absolutely nothing for me.  It's like a South Korean version of Dallas.  Rich people doing deplorable things to other, less fortunate people and each other without facing any of the consequences.  This might sound interesting to some people and, in theory, it probably came across like that.  Execution, though, is another thing entirely.  It just leaves a lot to be desired, there's no real character progression.  I understand Young-jak has a character arc but it's pretty uninteresting.  At first he's tempted by the money and power, then he realizes the corruption that goes along with that and decides he no longer wants a part of it.  That's as much effort as there was put into any.  Oh and the patriarch of the family actually did have the most interesting stuff going on, considering he wants to leave the family in search of the happiness he hasn't in all the years he's been married, but his wife, the head of the family, does not allow him to.  Easily much more interesting than the main character's arc Other than that there's not much going on here.  That's not to mention the tonal shifts that drag the movie down. Sometimes the film has a darkly comic tone, but other times it is completely humorless, almost ridiculously so. Like the scene at the airplane near the end feels like right out of a romantic comedy. Particularly considering the fact that that scene was followed by an incredibly serious moment. This movie clearly does not know what it wants to be. Solid acting and beautiful cinematography don't mean shit when your film is that lacking. I wouldn't recommend this at all, unless you're interested in it visually and technically, other than that, this movie doesn't offer anything. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member This pseudo-sexual erotic thriller is neither erotic, nor thrilling. It has nothing to offer besides bloated dialogue, cheap nudity and, shallow motives to kill off the characters. Speaking of characters, they're practically made of cardboard. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review jake s A guy desperately attempts to retain at least a portion of his soul while working for a ruthless wealthy family that runs a corrupt mega-corporation. You can just image how that goes for him. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Disappointing. A sequel, of sorts, to The Housemaid though it is not at all necessary to have watched the Housemaid before seeing The Taste of Money. Like The Housemaid, the movie has heaps of potential. Family intrigues, corporate corruption, general seediness. The introduction of a new character, Joo Young-Yak, allows for a fresh view on the evil family we met in The Housemaid. Also allows the movie to be watched in isolation. With this setup, you think that the story should be quite interesting, and initially it is. However after the good foundation, the movie proceeds to go nowhere. While the family intrigues continue, they don't all make sense. Things just feel contrived. Ending does nothing to try to tie everything together and is quite pointless. Performances are decent. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Movie Info

      Synopsis The assistant of a wealthy socialite reveals her husband's salacious affair. The fallout entangles him in a web of sex, love and deceit that could threaten his life and career.
      Director
      Im Sang-soo
      Screenwriter
      Im Sang-soo
      Production Co
      Above the Line Productions
      Genre
      Mystery & Thriller, Drama
      Original Language
      Korean
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Apr 10, 2017
      Runtime
      1h 54m
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