Prashast Singh Movie: No Tears for the Dead (18)Rating: 4.5/5South Korean action films are often engaging and entertaining. When I watch an action film, I don't think of finding any logical loopholes. Why should one? Action films are always meant to draw attention towards impressive action and emotions set in visually stunning backdrops. So is this South Korean action film NO TEARS FOR THE DEAD. It has all the elements a perfect action film should have and is extremely impressive and wholly engaging.NO TEARS FOR THE DEAD has not just impressive action, but impressive visuals, performances and BGM too. This is Jang Dong-gun's first film I've seen and he's just excellent! It's difficult to take eyes off the screen when he's either acting, emoting or fighting: he does every part so well. Kim Min-hee delivers a strong performance. Other actors manage to leave a mark with their respective memorable performances.The story and screenplay are like never seen or heard before. The film looks extremely stylish and this is another reason why you should catch this one on Blu-ray. It has all the things that make it a perfect watch for action lovers. But not just for action lovers. It has elements which work with lovers of drama and thriller genres too. The VFX, locations and cinematography too are excellent and production values are top notch.Overall, NO TEARS FOR THE DEAD is a memorable action film that will definitely be liked by action fans and South Korean cinema lovers.

tenshi_ippikiookami Gon is a killer whose new mission is to get some data and then kill the woman that has it, a woman that happens to be the mother of a little child he killed by accident on his last mission. Of course, Gon grows a conscience and decides to betray his bosses and safe the woman."No Tears for the Dead" is not the most original movie in the basket. It is predictable, lame and you will see any plot development from a mile away. It doesn't help that the pace and direction are not very good, and the action scenes are shrouded in darkness making everything quite difficult (and boring) to follow. The acting ranges from B-movie level to okeish to I-don't-know-I-was-an-actor level, and the lead actor, Dong-gun Jang, fails miserably in bringing any charisma to Gon. Min-hee Kim as Mo-kyeong, the woman who may or may not have the data the triads are searching for, fares better, as does also Brian Tee with a paper-thin character that is just there to allow him to look cool.An action movie should at least have some cool action, and action scenes that make sense and are entertaining. "No Tears for the Dead" forgot the action rule-book home and offers neither of them.

grandmastersik A simple plot: a hit-man accidentally kills a little girl and is then sent to put the mother out of her misery.So, how can this possibly go wrong? After the explosive beginning, the pace drops off almost to the point of tedium as we're supposed to feel the agony of characters we never quite connect with. There's something about Triad bank accounts worth around $100 million thrown in to motivate the gangsters and throw some cops into the mix, but it's so poorly put together that - if it couldn't have been fixed via a couple of rewrites - really should have been taken out.Fortunately, 40 minutes or so in, the action kicks off again and it's the excellence we all sat down to watch in the first place.Now, I'm all for catering for genre fans, just as I'm all for making deep, meaningful thrillers, but unfortunately, the plotting doesn't quite have the plausibility or pacing to be the powerful action-thriller the director was hoping it would be and in the end, despite all the great action scenes, No Tears For the Dead left me feeling detached and out in the cold.

Robert John Morales As more and more action movies come out these days, there seems to be a trend of the writers and directors asking themselves "Why not?" "why not have our hero be indestructible?" "Why not bend the laws of physics to make for a cool looking scene?" or "if it doesn't make sense, then why not force it to?"When what they should have been asking all along is simply "why?" "Why is this scene going to make sense?" "Why is it that they are out for blood?" and "If we're going to force the script into something that it's not, just to make this one scene work, then why are we putting it in at all?"This movie asks itself all of the right questions when setting you up for the next scene. You are never lost so that you have time to try and figure out what's going to happen next. And by following a simple two step process, this movie never loses itself in it's amazing practical blood and gritty action.1:Therefore 2:But No matter what happens throughout the movie, you can see that it follows these two steps. Which is becoming more and more rare these days. "The money has gone missing" Therefore "The bad guys try and find it using blackmail" but "he fights back" and so on and so forth. My point being is that this movie is larger than life and is a heart breaker, and at the same time it's eye candy. I could not recommend this movie enough because it's patient with itself but it never forgets what it's there to do, entertain and strike emotion into your heart.