I Saw the Devil (2010)
Average Rating: 7.1/10
Reviews Counted: 78
Fresh: 62 | Rotten: 16
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Average Rating: 6.3/10
Critic Reviews: 13
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 6
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I SAW THE DEVIL is a shockingly violent and stunningly accomplished tale of murder and revenge from Korean genre master KIM Jee-woon (The Good, The Bad, The Weird and A Tale of Two Sisters). Oldboy's CHOI Min-sik plays Kyung-chul, a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. The embodiment of pure evil, he has committed horrifying and senselessly cruel serial murders on defenseless victims, successfully eluding capture by the police. On a freezing, snowy night, his latest victim is the
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Byung-hun Lee
Soo-hyun -
Min-sik Choi
Kyung-chul -
Chun Kook-Haun
Captain Jang -
Ho-jin Chun
Detective Oh -
San-ha Oh
Ju-yeon -
Yoon-seo Kim
Se-yeon -
Choi Moo-seong
Tae-ju -
Kim In-Seo
Se-jung -
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All Critics (78) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (62) | Rotten (16) | DVD (1)
A remorseless catalogue of calculated violence, casual cannibalism and sexual sadism, this inflicts over two hours of suffering on the audience...
Top CriticThis is the stuff of nightmares, where even the good guy is bad, and as shock cinema goes, it packs a punch.
We lucky westerners get to see it in all its hair-raising, stomach-churning glory, and that's a wonderful thing.
After a while, the sheer length and repetitiousness of the film begins to feel pornographic in the dullest sense.
Director Kim Jee-woon is a born filmmaker, even if this script (written by Park Hoon Jung and adapted by Kim) is unworthy of his efforts.
As revenge fantasy, "I Saw the Devil'' is clever. As comedy, it's sick. As moviegoing, it's tedious...
A thriller that makes you wish you knew how to scream "O.M.G." in Korean.
A revenge flick that's just about as uncompromising as anything I've seen come out of Asia in the last decade or so.
In filmmaker Kim Jee-woon's latest offering, the generous runtime begins with narrative promise but soon settles for near-ridiculous plot twists in order set up the next sadistic rape, murder, torture or terror most foul.
Worth the price of admission for the wildly creative (and brutally bloody) taxicab scene alone. Merciless, uncompromising, and unforgettable.
Senseless and inane sicko revenge pic.
...a gritty, brutal, and consistently uncompromising thriller that does, for the most part, feel like South Korea's answer to Se7en.
This film features a spectacular performance by Choi Min-sik as Kyung-chul, one of the most scary and evil villains ever seen in any film.
Casts quite a spell. Even if the whole endeavor limps to a close, there's enough vivid imagery and teary passion within to fuel several movies.
Possibly the most violent film ever, I Saw The Devil makes Hostel look like a teddy bears' picnic.
There's no shortage of Korean revenge-thrillers, but this, along with the recent The Man from Nowhere, proves there is plenty of life left in the genre.
Although director Kim Ji-woon's inventive twist on the vigilante shocker is relentlessly bloodthirsty, it never loses sight of the human fallout from violent crime, deftly weaving Lee's eye-for-an-eye actions with moments of genuine emotional grief.
Violent, visceral and vengeful: a catalogue of torture with frustratingly little else to maintain the interest.
There is no denying that Kim Jee-woon is a phenomenal director, wrenching visceral thrills, dark humour and even occasionally an element of surprise, from all his stock set-pieces.
Ji-woon handles difficult set pieces and violence well, managing not to appear over-indulgent despite the film's obvious roots in exploitation cinema.
This gleefully black horror-thriller is a very classy follow-up to The Good, the Bad, the Weird for Kim Jee-Woon.
Half engrossing, half just gross, Kim's revenge epic is all form over content. The style dazzles, but just think what he could do with a decent script.
The movie does something no slasher, torture porno, bad cop picture or revenge movie should be at all able to do in 2011: it keeps us guessing.
Audience Reviews for I Saw the Devil
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- Detective Oh: He can't become a monster to fight the monster.
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- Captain Jang: Who broke your balls?
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Foreign Titles
- I Saw the Devil (DE)
- I Saw the Devil (UK)
