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Rating: 7.5 stars

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Korean serial killer gangster crime boss detective chase murder

All movies seen on 02/19/2025

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The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil (2019)

Directed by Lee Won-tae

Crime | Action | Thriller

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Overview

After barely surviving a violent attack by an elusive serial killer, crime boss Jang Dong-su finds himself forming an unlikely partnership with local detective Jung Tae-seok to catch the sadistic killer simply known as K.

Length 110 minutes

Actors

Ma Dong-seok | Kim Mu-yeol | Kim Sung-kyu | Heo Dong-won | You Jae-myeong | Lee Seo-hwan | Oh Hee-joon | Kim Gyu-ri | Yoo Seung-mok | Ryu Tae-ho | Cha Soon-bae | Jeon Bae-soo | Lee Eun-saem | Yoon Yeong-gyun | Min-jung Ban | Moon Soon-ju | Lee So-jin | Woo Kang-min | Park Bo-kyung | Kim Yoon-sung | Gong Sung-ha | Yoon Young-kyun

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

My favorite aspect of the movie upon this rewatch is that Ma Dong-seok and Kim Mu-yeol have reversed roles from the new Roundup: Punishment movie. Here they are the criminal and the cop. In R:P,  Ma Dong-seok is the cop and Kim Mu-yeol is the criminal. Here Ma Dong-seok is constantly berating and slamming the cops for being no good yet of course he’s the super cop in the Roundup movies. It’s fun.

Overall, this is like K-movie lite when it comes to serial killers and gangsters. Could’ve gone way harder but it feels so neutered of anything real edgy. But it is still great fun to see the cops and gangsters working together to catch the killer. Very crowd pleasing.

I LOVE THE ENDING SCENE (with Don Lee smiling)

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