Story71% Acting76% Directing79% Music & Sets78% Originality63%Thumbs UPGood cinematography.Music that keeps you hooked.Three solid actors.Thumbs Downa few tiresome and overused clichés.No real twists.Mixing comedy and thriller elements doesn't always work. 75%Overall Score Reader Rating: (4 Votes)94%It’S Like A Jungle Out There
Director duo Ui-Seok Jo and Byung-Seo Kim bring you 2013′s South Korean crime thriller “Cold Eyes“, also known as “Gam-Si-Ja-Deul“. It features three solid actors: Han Hyo-Joo, Jung Woo-Sung and Sol Kyung-Gu and also features a great soundtrack that keeps the movie-blood flowing. The story might not be the most revolutionary one, but it does the job, so to speak ( or write ). It’s also nearly two hours long, making it a pretty sizable bite to chew down.
The opening twenty minutes ( that’s before the title ever even pops up on-screen ) have you following two separate, yet related, storylines. The first involves...
Director duo Ui-Seok Jo and Byung-Seo Kim bring you 2013′s South Korean crime thriller “Cold Eyes“, also known as “Gam-Si-Ja-Deul“. It features three solid actors: Han Hyo-Joo, Jung Woo-Sung and Sol Kyung-Gu and also features a great soundtrack that keeps the movie-blood flowing. The story might not be the most revolutionary one, but it does the job, so to speak ( or write ). It’s also nearly two hours long, making it a pretty sizable bite to chew down.
The opening twenty minutes ( that’s before the title ever even pops up on-screen ) have you following two separate, yet related, storylines. The first involves...
- 12/13/2013
- by The0racle
- AsianMoviePulse
Stars: Hyo-ju Han, Woo-sung Jung, Jun-Ho Lee, Kyung-gu Sol, Simon Yam | Written by Kin-Yee Au, Ui-seok Jo, Nai-Hoi Yau | Directed by Ui-seok Jo, Byung-seo Kim
Review by Scott Clark of Cinehouse
One of the most accomplished and stand-out features at Toronto International Film festival this year is the slick, fierce, and ingenious Korean thriller Cold Eyes.
A bank robbery and the induction of a fresh faced operative to a shadowy police surveillance team, I’m a sucker for a concise, fast-paced opening and Cold Eyes has a great one in the vein of Heat and The Dark Knight… Actually Cold Eyes emulates a hundred films like these in its consistently thrilling flow of events, its use of characters who are at the top of their game, and its beautifully shot sprawling urban space. The film flits from point to point pulling at the quickly unravelling thread of a ensemble of...
Review by Scott Clark of Cinehouse
One of the most accomplished and stand-out features at Toronto International Film festival this year is the slick, fierce, and ingenious Korean thriller Cold Eyes.
A bank robbery and the induction of a fresh faced operative to a shadowy police surveillance team, I’m a sucker for a concise, fast-paced opening and Cold Eyes has a great one in the vein of Heat and The Dark Knight… Actually Cold Eyes emulates a hundred films like these in its consistently thrilling flow of events, its use of characters who are at the top of their game, and its beautifully shot sprawling urban space. The film flits from point to point pulling at the quickly unravelling thread of a ensemble of...
- 9/23/2013
- by Guest
- Nerdly
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