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Ohjaus:
Seung-wan RyooKäsikirjoitus:
Seung-wan RyooKuvaus:
Yeong-hwan ChoiSävellys:
Jun-suk BangNäyttelijät:
Jeong-min Hwang, Ah-in Yoo, Hae-jin Yu, Dal-su Oh, Yoon-ju Jang, Si-hoo Kim, Woong-in Jeong, Man-sik Jung, Kyeong Jin, In-yeong Yoo, Jong-hwan Park (lisää)Juonikuvaukset(1)
Seo Do-cheol (The Unjust's Hwang Jung-min) is a detective in the major-crimes squad. He is impulsive, irreverent, and always up for a fight - so much so that his colleagues accuse him of having become a cop just to beat people up. Veteran opens with Seo and his crack team in the middle of an international auto-theft sting, which leads to a garage skirmish in which Seo displays his resourcefulness as he gleefully weaponizes everything from car doors to spray paint. But the sundry abilities of Seo and his fellow officers are put to the test when they set their sights on Jo Tae-oh (Yoo Ah-in), the tyrannical heir to the Sunjin Group, a powerful conglomerate that regularly flouts the law. Officers and corporate criminals alike pull out all the stops as Seo and Jo head toward an inevitable showdown. (Toronto International Film Festival)
(lisää)Arvostelut (2)
Enthusiastic reviews, happy earnings, but unfortunately disappointing for me. Veteran has the traditional great Korean visuals and lots of familiar faces, but story-wise I found it too flat. There's hardly any blood for a thriller, not a very interesting story for a drama and very little action for an action film, actually only at the beginning and at the end, although I was pleased with the solid 15 minute finale where the director serves us two very well choreographed fights and an intense car chase, but I was so tired of the flow that I couldn't enjoy it properly. At least the young actor Ah-in Yoo should be praised, he played the young, rude, arrogant, spineless and almighty mob boss very convincingly (he knows martial arts, I'm sure we'll see him again soon). It's not bad, but because of the draggy pace and lack of action, Veteran didn't grow on me. 60%
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Veteran does not deserve attention for its cinematic qualities, entertaining spectacle or the director’s typically brilliant physical action choreography, though in these respects it is a very solid genre mix. Much more noteworthy is the fact that, contrary to expectations, this solid yet not especially exceptional film became the third most-watched movie of all time in Korea. In this respect, the film has a perfect exploitation-style narrative, which for most of the runtime only builds up the outrage toward the demonised, degenerate parvenu and then allows that outrage to be vented in a gladiatorial manner. Paradoxically, however, the narrative concurrently serves as a means of justifying police brutality or even straight-up glorifying it as a necessary way to make the bastards who remain beyond the reach of the law at least partially pay the price for their actions.
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