Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Lee Byung-Hun | ... | Kim Soo-hyeon | |
Choi Min-sik | ... | Jang Kyung-chul | |
Jeon Gook-Hwan | ... | Squad Chief Jang | |
Ho-jin Chun | ... | Section Chief Oh | |
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San-ha Oh | ... | Joo-yeon |
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Yoon-seo Kim | ... | Se-yeon |
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Moo-Seong Choi | ... | Tae-joo |
In-seo Kim | ... | Se-jung | |
Kim Kap-su | ... | Planning team deputy head | |
Joon-hyuk Lee | ... | Agent (as Lee Joon-Hyeok) | |
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Deok-jae Jo | ... | Detective Kang |
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Cheol-woo Han | ... | Detective Park |
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Myeong-Yeon Jo | ... | Detective Jo |
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Tae-goo Eom | ... | Detective Eom |
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Se-joo Han | ... | Woman on bus |
SPOILER: Jang Kyung-chul (Choi Min-sik) is a dangerous psychopath serial killer. He has committed infernal serial murders in diabolic ways that one cannot even imagine and his victims range from young women to even children. The police have chased him for a long time, but were unable to catch him. One day, Joo-yeon, daughter of a retired police chief becomes his prey and is found dead in a horrific state. Her fiancé Soo-hyun (Lee Byung-hun), a top secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take bloody vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself to get this monstrous and inhumane killer. Written by jck movies
When Joo-yeon (San-ha Oh) has a flat tire on the snow, she calls the tow truck to help her and calls her beloved fiancé Kim Soo-hyeon (Byung-hun Lee), who is a secret agent, to kill time. Out of the blue, a man offers to help her and Joo-yeon refuses. But the man breaks her car, abducts her and dismember her body. Her father, who is a retired chief of police, gives the data of the four prime suspects to Soo- hyeon and he asks two week off to his chief. He hunts the men down and when he finds that Kyung-chul (Min-sik Choi) is the killer, he promises a dreadful to revenge against the killer to make him suffer as Joo- yeon did. Soo-hyeon becomes a monster and begins a cat-and- mouse game, capturing and releasing Kyung-chul wounded many times. But the serial-killer is the personification of evil and makes Soo-hyeon regret for not killing him when he had the chance.
"Ang-ma-reul bo-at-da", a.k.a. "I Saw the Devil", is a brutal South- Korean thriller with a story of revenge. The plot follows the creepy line of "Seven" and "Silence of the Lambs", but Kyung-chul makes John Doe and Dr. Hannibal Lecter seem to be in the kindergarten of crime. The viewer does not feel the 2h 21min running time of the suspenseful and haunting story. The direction, performances, cinematography, camera work, locations, resuming, everything is top-notch in this film. Fortunately there is no American remake of this film. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): "Eu Vi o Diabo" ("I Saw the Devil")