Slow Video (2014)

A man is cursed by seeing everything in slow motion.

Director:

Young-Tak Kim

Writer:

Young-Tak Kim

Stars:

Kil-kang Ahn, Tae-Hyun Cha, Sung-won Choi

Cast

Credited cast:
Kil-kang Ahn	...	Baek Goo's father
Tae-Hyun Cha	...	Yeo Jang-boo
Sung-won Choi	...	Loan shark
Kyung Jin	...	(as Jin Kyung)
Chang-Seok Ko	...	Doctor Seok (as Go Chang-seok)
Jeong-hwa Kwak	...	Chorus 5
Joon-hyuk Lee	...	Team Leader Bae (as Joon Hyuk Lee)
Sang-mi Nam	...	Bong Soo-mi
Dal-su Oh	...	Byeong-soo
Yooyoung	...	Yeo Jang-mi

Storyline

Yeo Jang-Boo (Cha Tae-Hyun) possesses extraordinary visual acuity, he can sees everything in slow motion. He is able to see things that ordinary people cannot. When he was a little, people laughed at him. Afterwards, he spent the next 20 years at home watching TV dramas. Finally, Yeo Jang-Boo goes out into the world and becomes an ace at a South Korean CCTV control center. While doing his job, he saw his long crush childhood friend, Bong Soo-Mi (Nam Sang-Mi) and decide to chasing after her by using his expert in CCTV.

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

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Did You Know?

Trivia

Slow Video is the second Korean investment by Fox International Productions, subsidiary of 20th Century Fox. The first one is "Running Man" starred by Shin Ha-kyun in 2013.

User Reviews

Great idea not very well accomplished

Great idea wasted by the lack of courage to try new things. This review is going to be a bit biased because when it comes to Asian cinema I really dislike when american companies put their hands on these projects. What attracts me the most to Korean cinema the most is their lack of fear of trying new things or even doing certain scenes most audiences would find too shocking or intense to be shown, so when american companies intervene in these projects you can almost feel something is not right. I'll note I didn't know 20th Century was behind the project until I finished the movie and started researching, but I knew it had to be an American production for the way the movie felt, there was this lacking of freedom most Korean movies have (oh the irony). With this I'm not saying american productions aren't good, I'm saying they are different kinds of productions. While the acting was what I would consider okay, granted this isn't a movie where any actor would show his/hers acting chops but the actors still made a good job overall, with one scene in particular coming to mind where the actor made a great job. The movie overall is enjoyable with a particular scene I consider a really creative try on the director with the condition of the main character being a source of great potential to make funny and interesting scenes, great work by the director and scriptwriters on the majority of the project, though I believe the movie could be much more than it actually came to be and offer, it's still and enjoyable ride and could be appreciated by many.

Details

Country:

South Korea USA

Release Date:

2 October 2014 (South Korea)

Also Known As:

Slow Video

Box Office

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$8,494,658

Company Credits

Production Co:

Ivanhoe Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox

Technical Specs

Runtime:

106 min

Color:

Color