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"The City of Violence" is surprisely good and pays homage to a handful of films and maybe video games. As much as I enjoyed this film there is ultimately much more behind it is probably clear, but the film leaves no time for the formulate narrative, which may disappoint the one hand, since there are hardly any surprises, at the same time one feels but also good hands and can be fully applied to the optical review and musical values of the film. This story entails Tae-Su (Doo-Hong Jung) who works as a policeman in Seoul, due to the murder of a former schoolmate after many years in his home town returns, only to realize that things have changed fundamentally. There are now brutal youth gangs, the night the roads unsafe and Tae-Su presumed to be stuck behind the murder. Together with another friend of his youth - Pil Ho - makes it to search for the murderer. This film ultimately reminded me of a revenge story in the cool'70s style, with good martial-arts sequences, which I have seen from Korea. The most notable feature in the great battle on road when the camera is very close to the action on it, and you do not always match the fighting, which sometimes chaotic adrift into something. The music selection is exemplary; it falls between hip-hop, Western scores and jazz is cool, run 93 minutes in length with very crisp, elegant retro style that contributes to the atmosphere. Leading actors Doo-Hong Jung (Tae-Su) can be fully convincing and shows us the best performance of his career. Ultimately, again a film that offers very little that is new, but at least his exemplary quotes parade passed, and guaranteed an audience. Like I stated before the weak point of this film is the story itself which is told too quickly. Of course, there is also a city gangsters and consequently many situations, with words no longer clear, but hand edges, and billets of action which is exactly why The City of Violence is worth seeing.Read full review
I will start off by saying I like pretty much all Martial Art movies, if not for the script or plot then at least for the action. City of Violence, however, was a movie that I enjoyed both for its action and for the quality of acting present in the film. The plot is one come throughout many martial arts films with it focusing on the revenge of lost friend, but the actors do a good job in all of their parts. Some of the scenes are a bit choppy and every once in awhile a character shows up with no introduction, but I still thought it to be a very good movie, and one that I will rewatch many times to come.
A lot of action great
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I am into martial art and when I saw the picture I automatically loved it. But when I bought the movie I slept watching it. It was okay but not what I really expected. My kind of movies are Ong-Bak, the Protector, district B13 etc just to list some of them. Like I said this movie is nothing compared to the above movies listed ahead. If you like any of the above movies I do say do not buy city of Violence.
Great movie
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