Sick Product of a Sick System

Let's be realistic.

A Masterpiece!

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

I was looking for an action movie. I saw this title, with Seagals face on the cover, with his name on it, with screen shots from the fighting scenes on the back cover, the description read as if this was some good action movie. But none of this holds true. Instead what we get is some kind of a melodrama about a single father and his little daughter.The dubbing of this movie is awful. Seems like they got the worst of the worst voice actors for this movie, so I really advise you to watch this in original language with subtitles. It can only make the movie better! The story is very confusing as there are big plot holes. The father (Lee Dong-Jun) is fighting for the world champion title in Taekwondo, but after a wrong decision from the ref, he loses the fight. At the same time his wife is giving birth to their child. The mother dies.Years later, the daughter runs into a woman in a supermarket, they both get to know each other. And it turns out that this woman is the thought-to-be-dead mother of the little girl. Oh wow, what a plot twist. How on earth can such a "mistake" happen? She was in a hospital. They declared her dead even though she really wasn't? And why didn't the mother try to contact her daughter or her husband? Or maybe it even was explained during the movie, but it was so boring (remember, I expected an action movie!) that I simply must have missed this "plot twist". But even if there's a "plot twist" there: What where the reasons for the mother to leave the family? And if she wasn't dead and did have her reasons to leave them... why doesn't she just move along after she discovers who the father of this little girl is? And what exactly where the reasons to kidnap the little girl, only for this show match to take place? Oh yeah, and who thought it would be funny to advertise this movie with Seagal if he only appears for like 6 minutes in it? Conclusion: If you are into Korean movies, you might want to take a look at this. Camera work is OK most of the time, some of the fight scenes that happen at the beginning of the movie are OK as well (the "5 against 5 cage match" and the final battle are poorly cut and there's no real flow to the fights). All the others, just stay the hell away from this.

I was really tense during this film, I love Steven Seagal's films... actually I love his earlier films... you know, when he was thin, handsome and cool, his "characters" were kinda better. But from the beginning of 2000s... what can I say? Extremely boring C films, straight to DVD features. Now, this is one of those rare Seagal films, very different, very rare, legendary, if you will. You don't see Steven Seagal everyday in some martial arts drama, just like this one. But, that doesn't mean that the movie is good, it was pretty irritating. The fight scenes were solid, and that's the only thing I like here, Steven did a good job for being on a screen for about 5-8 minutes... when it comes to the martial arts, but when it comes to acting... no luck. It was hard to understand all those Korean actors while talking in English, why didn't someone found some speech trainer to teach them to speak a little bit clearer. Don't get me wrong, when you are making a film, please, teach them to speak other language more understandable! Jeez, when they are talking Korean I understood them everything. There's nothing much special to say about this film, it is a really boring and irritating ordeal. You definitely have something better to do...And... has anyone else saw Raze from Underworld (2003)?

I rented these movie expecting other thing but I must say that it has been a nice surprise.Is not a Steven Seagal's movie, he just appears on a cameo, the real star of the movie is seo woo eun a little girl with an amazing acting skills. the movie is a drama about a father who quit his fighting career to look after his daughter. the action scenes are really well done as the dramatic scenes that are really well played by the actors.My personal favorite scene is the one in which the little girl starts singing the song Clementine and finally end up crying on the window looking the city lights.is a really great movie, a martial arts drama but if you only expect an action film is not your movie

As a fan of Asian (especially Korean) movies I just had to look this up. Korean martial arts movie with Steven Seagal! How cool is that, huh? Well, not much. The film itself seemed do not know what it wanted to be.It starts like some gangster/cop action drama. The protagonist, as an ex-fighter and martial artist, takes out punch of criminals in illegal casino. He retires from police and we see heartwarming relationship between him and his adorable daughter. Then the gangsters force the protagonist to fight again. Then we see one poorly directed and edited cage fight scene. The daughter cries. Then comes some woman who appears to be the biological mother of the girl. More drama follows and the girl cries again. The daughter gets kidnapped just to force the father to fight one more time but this time his opponent is unbeatable cage fight master (Steven Seagal). Another fight scene. The girl cries again (it becomes annoying). Then comes Steven Seagal and says something meaningful. The girl stops crying (finally). Happy end!Steven Seagal's part is quite brief and we can't see him much in the final fight either. The drama parts between the Korean actors were played out pretty well and the story around the girl was rather interesting and quite enjoyable.It would have been much better movie as a simple drama without those poor action sequences. And maybe if the father would have been played by Steven Seagal. The premise: An American Taekwondo champion living in Korea with his seven year old daughter and then the supposedly dead mother comes up. That would have been cool!