Chicago – What’s more depressing than a Hollywood blockbuster regurgitating cliches? A foreign film clearly inspired by those cliches, that’s what. Shin-yeon Won’s 2007 Korean thriller “Seven Days” fuses the worst stylistic excesses of Michael Bay and Tony Scott with the plot of a particularly ludicrous “CSI” episode. An American remake would not only be unnecessary, but throughly redundant.
The film’s biggest selling point for American audiences is its leading lady, Yunjin Kim, best known as Sun Kwon on “Lost.” Kim was a last-minute addition to the project after the original star quit, and her presence will undoubtedly make this picture somewhat of a curiosity piece, though it certainly won’t cheer up “Lost” fans already reeling from disappointment caused by the recent Emmy Awards snubbing. Though Kim is featured in nearly every scene, she can barely keep up with the jittery camerawork and frantic editing that routinely obscure her performance.
The film’s biggest selling point for American audiences is its leading lady, Yunjin Kim, best known as Sun Kwon on “Lost.” Kim was a last-minute addition to the project after the original star quit, and her presence will undoubtedly make this picture somewhat of a curiosity piece, though it certainly won’t cheer up “Lost” fans already reeling from disappointment caused by the recent Emmy Awards snubbing. Though Kim is featured in nearly every scene, she can barely keep up with the jittery camerawork and frantic editing that routinely obscure her performance.
- 9/7/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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