#LAST GANGLAND MOVIE MOVIE#
But he’s whipped up a solid and just-exciting-enough gangster movie with grimly conflicted characters and violence that can only be this visceral and personal when the debt collecting is done with a knife, not the coward’s cannon of choice, an AR-15. You won’t have enough when you actually need it.” “You’re soft when it matters most.” And “Don’t waste your breath like this. The tough-guy trash talk - in Korean, with English subtitles - is flinty and properly bad-ass Same with the film’s assorted assassinations.Īnd the acting is sharp, with many a blade handled with skill, many a cigarette lit with flair, many a death gruesome and in-your-face personal. The plot can be hard to follow, as MANY character names and loyalties have to be sorted out, and the pacing between action sequences seems even more ponderous because of that.īut the fights are intimate or epic in scale, and buckets of blood are always spilled.
The ineffectual and corrupt cops can’t get to him. In the midst of their chaos, two young lovers must navigate their dangerous circumstances to escape their affiliations and discover true love.The city of. His MO? He finds saps who owe him big debts to take the fall. He’s always warning his boss when this meeting or that bar is about to be raided.Įven though the patriarch of this underworld counsels “not fighting” because “when you fight, you both get hurt,” Lee Min-suk is about to slice up the peace and anybody planning to keep it. Kim Gil-suk ( YOO O-Seong) is a loyal lieutenant with the rival Taekji gang, the sort of insider who has an in with the cops. He breaks his deal with the Gyeongdo Gang with a blade. No, he’s not content with that long-time arrangement, which includes the occasional hired killing. The power dynamic at play is brutal Lee Min-suk ( Jang Hyuk), a gangster born in Seoul, is now a “debt collector” for one of the two main gangs in coastal Gangneung. Titles “Tomb of the River” is Korea, it’s a movie of elderly gangsters and their hobbies - pen and ink drawings, growing and drying one’s own chili peppers - and the hotblooded young men who might not let anybody’s retirement pass peacefully, if they even let a mob boss reach retirement age. The latest film from Yoon Youngbin reminds us just how much damage a sharp blade can do, how long it can take to “bleed out” from the wounds, and how much guts it takes the fight with this corner of gangland’s weapon of choice. But over the past 20 years, the dealers have graduated from motorcycle gangs to Asian crime syndicates and now the most dangerous drug lords in the world - the. You’ll have a long wait for that in “Paid in Blood,” a Korean gang war thriller that spills all its blood the old-fashioned way - with fists, sticks and knives.
Some gangster or cop will pull out a firearm. Americans are conditioned to wait for that moment when an onscreen brawl crosses over into “to the death” territory.
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