I Saw the Devil

2010 "Abandon all compassion."
7.8| 2h24m| R| en| More Info
Released: 12 August 2010 Released
Producted By: Showbox
Country: South Korea
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.isawthedevilmovie.com/
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Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. Soo-hyeon, a top-secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself.

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perica-43151 This movie is one more proof of the power of Korean cinema. It is violent, but also has twists and nice ending, and is fun and memorable and original. It also shows the price of revenge, but also various kinds of depravity. It is well worth a watch, if taken with a grain of salt and if you don't mind a bit of a human pulp here and there served on screen for good measure of East Asian culture.
robdot1964 Just when you think they've run out of new ideas, a movie lie this comes along. Brilliant
Michael Ledo The soundtrack starts out like this is a cheap Italian movie. It gets better.The movie starts out with a woman stranded on a highway in the snow. She has a wrecker coming and is talking on her cell to her husband, a secret agent who watches Liam Neeson films. He is also conducting business. At one point he excuses himself to go to the restroom so he can sing to her on the phone. The next thing you know she is bludgeoned and dragged to a location where she is stripped and chained. The man doesn't torture her, just simply kills her. We find out that not only is he a psycho, but generally socially dysfunctional.Her husband takes a leave from work and goes and plays "Dirty Harry" on every Korean pervert until he finds the killer in the act of raping a girl. Apparently the killer disrobes, rapes and then murders his victims, although he kills men too. He stops the rape and beats up the killer, but lets him go. The killer now has a bug and tracking device on him. Our Korean Dirty Harry is able to follow him around. When the killer/rapist is in the middle of an act, our Korean Dirty Harry shows up, beats the guys up and cuts on him. He is now wearing a soccer jersey so he can claim he got his wounds playing soccer in order to get medical attention, perhaps intended as a joke.Nudity and rape, although the rape scenes are far less graphic than our 70's films. The translation was rather smooth and kudos for some originality.
Miguel Neto I Saw the Devil proved to me that Korean cinema is amazing, Oldboy is one of my favorite movies and it's the movie that made me watch more and more Korean cinema, and in these last years I've seen a lot of Korean movies, and until recently I vi I Saw the Devil a sensational film, a very different revenge film, is very violent and shocking and has exciting moments as well, a good soundtrack and a great direction, with a good script, the cast is very good, but the highlight It's amazing Min-Sik Choi (who is the protagonist of Oldboy) that this sensational, one of my favorite actors no doubt, the protagonist of I Saw the Devil is very well acted by Byung-Hun Lee, but the character made some choices which makes us angry at him, who watch will understand, and the film could take 10 minutes less, has some unnecessary scenes. Note 9.7