Deliver Us From Evil

una pelicula con adrenalina constante y muy trepidante, llena de accion y trama compleja

The plot and the film's concept feel like a combination of The Raid and Taken. I was highly invested in the story and enjoyed the action, which kept my interest high for the entire duration. The film delivers a great time with only a few elements that weaken it, including side characters who are significantly over the top and ultimately forgettable.

The most cliche korean action/crime movie. Yet the most cliche Korean action/crime movie is still good! The basic idea and plot still ht emotionally, you still feel for the characters and want to see them succeed. The film had some weaknesses. Its slow motion editing in action scenes was a bit much at times and their use of what I will call the "epic sound" (sound used to make something seem intense) was just obnoxious, as the use of the "epic sound" always is, and just took away from the scenes. The villain was a bit too cliche and not as well done as others but still worked. This film did nothing special, its just that the basic korean action/crime plot is just so good as long as you don't do anything wrong the film is going to be good. A good film for anyone looking for an action movie that doesn't mind subtitles.

EVIL RAY OF SUNSHINE This is one humid movie. Everyone is sweating. Beads and beads of sweat in glorious close ups. No time to towel off you see, as there's too much action for hygiene. Bathed in thick burnt yellow hues, "Deliver Us From Evil" is a non-stop Korean action film with a capital A. This go-go thriller pits two veteran hitmen in each other's path of destruction, which means boffo fight scenes and ridiculous collateral damage for the solid duration. Sure there's plot, but that's irrelevant. A daughter needs to be saved, a brother needs to be avenged, a retiring agent is called in for one last job; the script writes itself. In-nam (a stoic and very sweaty Hwang Jung Min) travels to exotic locales (Tokyo, Bangkok), stalking a nasty kidnapping ring, with The Butcher (an even sweatier Ling Jung-jae) in hot pursuit. Good and evil are clearly defined, as The Butcher - you can call me Ray - dominates his scenes in a stylishly dark, over the top psychotic performance. Combat is often close quartered, impressively acrobatic and darn clever, with that parkour flavour born of the Bourne series. This film delivers the goods, and the evils, in copious amounts. Rooting comes easy, jeering too. Leave logic at the door and c'mon in. - hipCRANK

Fantastic. 'Deliver Us From Evil' is like an Asian version of 'Taken', except so much better (and I already enjoyed 'Taken' as a film). It has everything you could possibly want in an action/thriller – great performances; good pacing; dynamic action sequences; a variety of over-the-top, but interesting characters – and all of it contained within a story that, whilst hitting all the usual action beats, still manages to be more layered than most. Sure, there are a lot of familiar elements and it's not realistic, but it does exactly what it set out to do, and it does it with style. Damn entertaining stuff.

The best Korean movie.

Written and directed by Won-Chan Hong has professional hitman, In-nam (Huang Dung-Min) wanting his latest job to be his last except that by coincidence his last hit job now has his social pathic brother seeking retribution for his demise. At the same time, he learns he has a daughter in Bangkok he has never met and is kidnapped and sold in the black market after he learns his ex had been killed.

Great disappointment comes from high expectations. Unfortunately this movie becomes a cliche with cliche certainty of what is going to happen. But it passed the time.

A commercial hit in its home country last summer, it's totally understandable why it has been described as a Korean cross between Taken and John Wicks as it aptly sums up what this film is to a Western audience. Massive Korean stars Jung-min Hwang and Jung-jae Lee play, respectively, In-nam, an assassin on the cusp of retirement after the proverbial last job and Ray, a sadistic mafia butcher on a relentless hunt for the murderer of his brother, aka In-nam's last job. Throw in a human trafficking ring specialising in children for their body parts and the kidnap of the daughter of In-nam's old flame, and the two battling Koreans turn Bangkok, where most of this film was shot, inside out, leaving a bloody trail of corpses behind them. Naturally, it's nonsense and mindlessly violent but once you get over that (if you can), this is surprisingly entertaining in its own way. Acting and nuance take a back-seat to looking cool for the cameras as Hwang's stoic Korean Jim Caviezel (circa Person of Interests era) and Lee's neck-tattooed and haute-coutured model/villain clearly demonstrate while Jeong-min Park's problematic, if not entirely OTT, Korean transsexual, basically the "tart with a heart" from 70s/80s Hollywood films, is a very dated stereotype who has perplexingly won awards over there. This is your typical gritty visceral Korean thriller where a SWAT team of machine guns will still manage to miss the central characters who simply won't die until the very last all-hell-breaks-loose showdown. Logical and sensible plotting takes second place to multiple magnificently choreographed fight scenes that aims to satisfy the bloodlust of its most thirsty mainstream audience. So if that's what you're looking for, this film will certainly deliver in buckets.

Great fight scenes and character!