Injeong sajeong bol geot eobtda (1999)

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Director:

Myung-se Lee

Writer:

Myung-se Lee (writer)

Release Date:

31 July 1999 (South Korea)

Genre:

Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller

Plot:

A team of police hunt down a villain.

Awards:

2 wins

Cast

Joong-Hoon Park	...	Detective Woo
Sung-kee Ahn	...	Chang Sungmin
Dong-Kun Jang	...	Detective Kim
Ji-Woo Choi	...	Juyon
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jae-mo Ahn
Yong-gu Do
Ju-bong Gi
Yong-ua Kwon
Hae-eun Lee
Won-jong Lee
Sang-Myeon Park
Seung-ho Park
Cheal-jong Shim
Young-chang Song

Also Known As:

Nowhere to Hide (UK)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence and language.

Runtime:

112 min | UK:97 min

Country:

South Korea

Language:

Korean

Colour:

Black and White | Colour

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Germany:16 | Iceland:16 | Australia:MA | Singapore:NC-16 | Argentina:13 | France:U | Hong Kong:IIB | Philippines:R-13 | South Korea:12 | UK:15 | USA:R

Company:

Cinema Service

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes (2004) (VG)

I find myself viewing it for the second time in a row

I saw a trailer on an obscure DVD (don't remember which though) half a year ago. The trailer made use of the Bee Gee's song that's in two of the scenes in the movie. Then I read most of this IMDb comments.

A month ago I found the DVD (I'm always searching secondhand stores) and yesterday I put in in my DVD-player. Watched the trailer on the DVD again. It was a different one. Not as catchy as the one I saw earlier that made me want to see (want to have) this film. Then I watched the opening scene/titles and the 40 steps scene. My wife and I where about to start watching another film (Wanted, 2008). I asked for her patience and showed her the 40 steps scene first. She agreed with me that that was a beautiful scene and she was positively surprised by it hypnotic style. Then we watched Wanted. (Which had cool special effects but didn't convince me in any way: could have skipped that one...) Half an hour ago I finished watching Nowhere to Hide.

I think it is a fascinating movie. Storywise it's not very deep or wide, but that's alright with me. The acting, the photography, the directing and so forth I find very very good. The 40 steps scene reminded me very much of the better Miami Vice (televisionseries) episodes: music framing something horrible, continuing through the whole scene (not fading right after the dramatic climax, but going on for minutes and breathing out inevitability).

Now (while writing) I am playing the movie again.

One could say I really like it. I agree with most of the very enthusiastic reactions I read on IMDb.