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Real

67 votes

Producing House

Jang Tae-Young is a popular trouble shooter in the criminal world. He is cold and ambitious. He dreams of building a casino hotel one day. A reporter then goes to Jang Tae-Young.

movie

Status: Released

Released Date: 2017-06-28

Runtime: 137 mins

Director: Lee Sa-rang

Writer: Lee Jeong-sub

Spoken language: 한국어/조선말

Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller

Original title: Real

Production Companies: CJ Entertainment

Production Countries: South Korea

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While the movie had multiple flaws in story flow and pace, I don't think Real was the flop material it turned out to be in the end. The story could've been handled much better and Kim Soo-hyun's performance was brilliant but even his acting was shadowed by the pretentious confusion the movie caused. It had good light use though, so the visuals deserve some praise. I can see what they aimed with a modern touch to the classic Korean Revenge Cinema genre but I'm afraid they failed. Still, as I said, I've seen worse movies that got weirdly praises for being below average and the way this film was slandered by the Korean audience is a bit interesting to me. I hope to see actor Kim in more daring roles after seeing how well he did in this one, but due to the failure of the movie itself I sadly believe he will ignores projects as such from now on.
2021-08-10

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