Filmmaker Kim Chang-hoon clearly has good intentions on telling the story through the visual presentation, themes about violence and society and his directing but the tedious atmosphere, uninviting characters, and the cliched writing unfortunately detracts what could have been a pretty compelling South Korean Neo-Noir movie. Chang-hoon offers some interesting directions and the movie does demonstrate good directing and vision explored throughout the movie. Including solid camerawork and some solid performances from the cast members.
The narrative is an interesting concept but the lack of depth given to the characters and the tedious pacing creates the movie to become bland and uninviting to engage with. With the performances being solid, the good performances aren't able to save the movie because the characters weren't good. Despite the characters are given backstories and personality depths, the emotional core and attachment feels missing which I struggled to engage with them.
There are some odd color presentations, the soundtrack was cheesy, and there are some pretty rough dialogue that was a little difficult to take seriously. It's clear there is a vision here but the vision isn't strong enough to withhold a good story. I can see Filmmaker Kim Chang-hoon having a potential in making good movies because he does offer some good talents. But it feels missing.
