Member tdb Posted October 4, 2009 Member Share Posted October 4, 2009 dir. Dae-Min Park Jeong-min Hwang is Jin-Ho Hong, an ex-police officer making ends meet in Seoul by finding missing persons and cheating spouses. He is approached by a medical student, Gwang Su (Ryu Deok-Hwan), who has a problem decomposing in his basement lab; the body of the son of a high ranking official that he found in a field and retrieved to study. They team up to find the murderer and open a can of worms that threatens to overwhelm them. There's a touch of Bond and a dash of hard-boiled detective, but not noir, more like CHINA TOWN. Also, a dollop of Sherlock Holmes in the relationship between Jin-Ho Hong and Gwang Su; if you're a Holmes buff you'll appreciate the ending. The murder is, of course, just the tip of the iceberg. The period setting is a change of pace from contemporary Korean suspense/thrillers like THE CHASER with period details looking pretty good, but I'm no expert, so I couldn't say just how authentic. It looked like the mid/late Twenties or early Thirties. There's some action, but this is primarily mystery/suspense book-ended with a good chase (rickshaw!) near the beginning and a nice fight near the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member daisho2004 Posted October 7, 2009 Member Share Posted October 7, 2009 This movie sounds pretty good, I'm gonna have to check it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Biozombie Posted June 30, 2010 Member Share Posted June 30, 2010 Really enjoyed this. Starts quite light and gets darker. Great performance from Hwang Jung Min as usual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member OpiumKungFuCracker Posted July 1, 2010 Member Share Posted July 1, 2010 Been looking for this movie for sometime now since I saw it at Fantastic Fest in Austin,Tx think it was 2009 when I last saw it... Phenomenal performance by the main lead... Does anybody know where to get a copy?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Biozombie Posted July 1, 2010 Member Share Posted July 1, 2010 Been looking for this movie for sometime now since I saw it at Fantastic Fest in Austin,Tx think it was 2009 when I last saw it... Phenomenal performance by the main lead... Does anybody know where to get a copy?? Here http://www.yesasia.com/global/private-eye-dvd-2-disc-first-press-limited-edition-korea-version/1020690507-0-0-0-en/info.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Wolcott Posted July 1, 2010 Member Share Posted July 1, 2010 Great movie. Jeong-min Hwang is fantastic in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member tdb Posted July 1, 2010 Author Member Share Posted July 1, 2010 Been looking for this movie for sometime now since I saw it at Fantastic Fest in Austin,Tx think it was 2009 when I last saw it... Phenomenal performance by the main lead... Does anybody know where to get a copy?? FF09 is where I saw it. We might have been in the same audience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member OpiumKungFuCracker Posted July 2, 2010 Member Share Posted July 2, 2010 FF09 is where I saw it. We might have been in the same audience. Hahahha maybe.. Are you gonna go to this year's fest??? They have this new event called Fantastic Arcade, it's gonna be a video game galore!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member tdb Posted July 2, 2010 Author Member Share Posted July 2, 2010 Yup, already got a regular badge; hoping to upgrade to a VIP badge. FF Badge holders are supposed to have access to the Fantastic Arcade. Fantastic Arcade badge holders have preference though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member OpiumKungFuCracker Posted July 2, 2010 Member Share Posted July 2, 2010 Yup, already got a regular badge; hoping to upgrade to a VIP badge. FF Badge holders are supposed to have access to the Fantastic Arcade. Fantastic Arcade badge holders have preference though. So is it best to just stick to the FF badge or get the badge and Arcade badge.. On the website it said that arcade badge gets priority access??? I'm confuse on what that means?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member tdb Posted July 2, 2010 Author Member Share Posted July 2, 2010 So is it best to just stick to the FF badge or get the badge and Arcade badge.. On the website it said that arcade badge gets priority access??? I'm confuse on what that means?? I think in practical terms it means FA badge holders get into the Highball before FF badge holders when the FA opens in the morning. That and FA badges get first dibs at any special FA events, etc... I don't usually have a lot of down time during FF, so I'm not particularly worried or anything. I suspect this is just another way to get more warm bodies into the Highball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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