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Saturday 24 September 2011

AKMAREUL BOATDAL [I SAW THE DEVIL] [2010]

Director Kim Ji-woon is a genre-hopping master. From the hilariously silly, the just plain weird, super creepy to disgustingly violent, Ji-Woon manages to throw in all those elements into his latest feature length.
With masterful performances from Choi Min-sik and Lee Byung-hun, I Saw The Devil is hypnotizing from beginning to end. It's a cat and mouse revenge tale, where the cat is particularly sadistic...and he's the good guy.
Although it does run about 15 minutes too long, there are a few huge plot holes and things that just don't make sense, I Saw The Devil is well-crafted, well-performed and good, sick, twisted fun.

4 Disappearing wounds out of 5

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