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Rating: 6.5 stars

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The Killer (2022)

Directed by Choi Jae-hoon

Action | Crime

Most recently watched by sleestakk

Overview

When retired hitman’s wife goes on vacation with her friend, she asks him to look after the friend’s teenage daughter. Things go awry when he is forced to use a little violence to protect the girl from juvenile delinquents, but then they are found dead and the girl is kidnapped.

Length 95 minutes

Actors

Jang Hyuk | Anne | Bruce Khan | Bang Eun-jung | Lee Seung-joon | Shin Seung-hwan | Hong Seo-joon | Lee Chae-Young | Yoo Seo-Jin | Choi Ki Seob | Kim Hae-woong | Son Hyun-joo | Cha Tae-hyun

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

Kinda shocked this was even playing at my local AMC. It feels like a cross between THE MAN FROM NOWHERE and TAKEN but lacks the emotional punch or melodrama of the former and the tension and pacing of the later. Despite that, it was still good enough and fun to see a serviceable Korean thriller in a theater for once!

I wouldn’t mind revisiting this at home in the Secret Cinema where the sound would be better than the dead-ass sounding screening we saw. Always hit or miss at Westminster with these smaller releases. There were four other people there besides us, so very quiet and no one close to us, which was nice.

The other film I’ve seen by the same director, THE SWORDSMAN, is better than this one, but almost certainly had a higher budget as well.

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