Review of Shiri

Shiri (1999)
The South Korean military needs better aim...
15 June 2003
Good Lord, with a dozen guys shooting MP5s, you'd think you could kill off one guy with a pistol! If all the South Korean soldiers were THAT incompetent, North Korea would've flattened them long ago...

That's the sort of silliness that pervades the action in Swiri. While the Woo-style HK blood opera is silly, as well, at least it's realistically silly (i.e., the hero wins against dozens of mooks because he is agile and avoids confronting too many at a time).

"Swiri" is a decent movie, with the best bits in the beginning in North Korea. It's emotional, and Hee is well-acted, but ultimately, it's just an above-average actioner/thriller/romance/political flick.
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