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New World (2013)

Directed by Park Hoon-jung

Crime | Drama

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Overview

An undercover cop has his loyalties tested when the boss of the corporate gang he’s spent years infiltrating dies.

Rated NR | Length 134 minutes

Actors

Lee Jung-jae | Choi Min-sik | Hwang Jung-min | Park Sung-woong | Song Ji-hyo | Kim Yoon-sung | Na Kwang-hoon | Park Seo-Yeon | Choi Il-hwa | Ju Jin-mo | Jang Gwang | Kwon Tae-won | Kim Hong-pa | Lee Kyung-young | Ryoo Seung-bum | Ma Dong-seok | Kim Byung-ok | Woo Jung-kook | Park In-Soo | Jung Young-ki | Park Sang-gyu | Ryoo Sung-hyun | Jeong Gi-seop | Sung Nak-kyung | Jung Min-sung | Ahn Soo-ho | Tae In-ho | Jeong Jae-heon | Kim Seo-won | Jihoon Park | Kwak Jin-seok | Ham Jin Sung | Choi Je-heon | Baek Seung-ik | Dong Hyun-bae | Han Jae-duk

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Viewing Notes

After a sleepy first half (I really was sleepy and the setup for the characters and plot situating was tedious) the last hour does a 180 making for an awesome gangster vs gangster action. But it’s not so much an action film as it is a crime drama. It just offers a few sublime bursts of action.

Hard to imagine a film in which Choi Min-sik stars where he is not the best thing going. He’s good here but the real star is Hwang Jeong-min! Holy shit is he great. The story centers around Lee Jeong-jae’s character; he’s serviceable.

Would have preferred less setup and more of the tension found within the second half. And since the core of this story is ultimately the relationship between the two main mafia “brothers” they should have done more w/that dynamic and really punch it home rather than after the fact. If you see the movie you’ll know what I mean.

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