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manny_calavera says...

7 years ago

Another great movie by the legendary Kim Jee-Woon. While a tad too longer, the best sequence which would remain is the train sequence which is one of the masterpieces of suspense.

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schmenky says...

7 years ago

2 / 2 directing & technical aspect
2 / 2 story
1 / 1 acting
0 / 1 pacing
1 / 1 dialogue
1 / 1 living up to its genre
0 / 1 originality
0 / 1 lasting ability to make you think
0.......misc enjoyment point (+/-)

7 out of 10

Act II on the train is a masterpiece.
Kang-ho Song is effing awesome in EVERYTHING he's in. Especially anything directed by Chan-wook Park.
If you liked this, check out The Good, the Bad, and the Weird. Same director, Jee-woon Kim, and Kang-ho is hilarious in it.

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MellowB says...

7 years ago

It's absolutely mindboggling again and again what the Korean's are able to do with a puny budget, like the $9 Million for this one. The set and costume design, production values in general and everything were so spot on as usual, amazing!

Tho as Manny said, the movie was maybe a tad too long but besides that another brilliant piece in Kim Jee-Woon's book of which I've seen them all. Fantastic cast and better than 2015's "Assassination" which was similar in setting.
Well worth your time!

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Saint Pauly says...

4 years ago

Korean epic _The Age of Shadows_ has everything and nothing it needs to excellent: espionnage, action, and not the slightest whiff of romance.

It stumbles to catch its footing in the over-long first act (and you have to read a lot of subtitles to grasp the basic intrigue of the film), but it really hits its stride in the second with suspense, on-point directing and top notch acting (the ensemble cast includes Song Kang-ho (_Parasite_, _The Host_, _Memories of a Murder_, _Snowpiercer_...)).

Like every truly great film, _The Age of Shadows_ demands interest, but pays off big time for the attention you pay it.

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drtfx7 says...

3 years ago

An exquisite array of tension-building sequences and cathartic ultra-violent showdowns riding at a notch below its competence due to the overlong, aimless narrative. The lack of direction shows in an otherwise deft screenplay with great performance and score.

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