(2022) The Killer
(In South Korean with English subtitles)
ACTION
It opens with professional killer, Bang Ui Gang (Jang Hyuk) killing two people upon them coming at him with a weapon as he is also the narrator. We then go back to Bang Ui Gan when he was an ordinary civilian and we learn, he is retired, but like retired from what profession! A killer like the title of the movie. Anyways, he is at home with an ordinary job with his girlfriend he shares his house with, she asks him to babysit 17 year old, Kim Yoon-ji (Seo-young Lee) while she and her mother go on a three week vacation. And it is not long before he is forced back into his old ways of executing people part of the human trafficking ring which the fight sequence at the opening does not occur until after the 40 minute mark, upon him going into a hotel building but is used as a prostitution ring. That our hero, Bang Ui Gang used to be a mercenary, and that the kidnapping of the 17 year old may lead to the higher up, such as a detective name Lee (Lee Seung-joon) and possibly to a court judge name Park Hyung- joo (Hong Seo-jun). And the identity of Mama Pig who we find out is really the daughter's stepmother.
The set up and the expected revelations is nothing more but serves as a backdrop to the action scenes, a good portion of them are a lot of well staged fight sequences and then guns. It is a combination of many movies, including "The Man From Nowhere" which the movie along the way gave a shout out to, "John Wick" because the star is extremely wealthy himself to pay experienced cleaners to dispose bodies similar to what Wick does,"The Equalizer 2" and "Taken" to name a few.
It opens with professional killer, Bang Ui Gang (Jang Hyuk) killing two people upon them coming at him with a weapon as he is also the narrator. We then go back to Bang Ui Gan when he was an ordinary civilian and we learn, he is retired, but like retired from what profession! A killer like the title of the movie. Anyways, he is at home with an ordinary job with his girlfriend he shares his house with, she asks him to babysit 17 year old, Kim Yoon-ji (Seo-young Lee) while she and her mother go on a three week vacation. And it is not long before he is forced back into his old ways of executing people part of the human trafficking ring which the fight sequence at the opening does not occur until after the 40 minute mark, upon him going into a hotel building but is used as a prostitution ring. That our hero, Bang Ui Gang used to be a mercenary, and that the kidnapping of the 17 year old may lead to the higher up, such as a detective name Lee (Lee Seung-joon) and possibly to a court judge name Park Hyung- joo (Hong Seo-jun). And the identity of Mama Pig who we find out is really the daughter's stepmother.
The set up and the expected revelations is nothing more but serves as a backdrop to the action scenes, a good portion of them are a lot of well staged fight sequences and then guns. It is a combination of many movies, including "The Man From Nowhere" which the movie along the way gave a shout out to, "John Wick" because the star is extremely wealthy himself to pay experienced cleaners to dispose bodies similar to what Wick does,"The Equalizer 2" and "Taken" to name a few.