Critic Reviews

• Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

  It's arty, murkily plotted and derivative of too many other movies.

• Matt Zoller Seitz, New York Times

  Undoing, by the writer and director Chris Chan Lee, buries a potentially haunting pulp thriller beneath flashy tics.

• Julia Wallace, Village Voice

  [Director Chris Chan] Lee tries to innovate, but he relies on so many tricks -- woozy overexposures, rapid-fire slideshows -- that his movie looks like the product of a teenager playing with the camera on his new MacBook.

• David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle

  The film is too short because the characters just aren't sufficiently developed, but even at a scant 90 minutes, it feels way too long.

• Peter Debruge, Variety

  [Director] Lee evokes the character of his varied Los Angeles environments, even if the human element feels as if it's been done -- and undone -- before.

• Don Willmott, Filmcritic.com

  though it's marred by way too many film school editing tricks, it's still a gripping little tale

• Austin Kennedy, Sin Magazine

  UNDOING is a perfect example of how NOT to make an independent film.

• Andy Klein, Los Angeles CityBeat

  ... full of flashy visual flourishes %u2026 in fact, too full. What at first seems intriguing quickly becomes a problem, complicating an already unclear narrative.

• Frako Loden, L.A. Weekly

  Los Angeles neo-noir meets multiformat video grit with varying degrees of success.

• Eric Monder, Film Journal International

  Undoing isn't a bad film; it's just not anything great or worth recommending.

• Rob Humanick, Slant Magazine

  Despite the fact that its style comes off as somewhat schizophrenic, Undoing is a film of remarkably direct emotions.

• Harvey S. Karten, Compuserve

  A smidgen of originality lies in its being a noir film with Korean characters: others nothing new, but still a watchable gangster pic.

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