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Shiri (2002)
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Reviews Counted:36
Fresh:21
Rotten:15
Average Rating:5.5/10
Rated: R [See Full Rating] for strong violence and some language
Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Theatrical Release:Feb 8, 2002 Limited
Box Office: $29,156
Synopsis: In 1992, Hee was trained by a secret North Korean terrorist organization to be a deadly assassin. Six years later, her extreme accuracy has taken the lives of many in South Korea, and Ryu--a... In 1992, Hee was trained by a secret North Korean terrorist organization to be a deadly assassin. Six years later, her extreme accuracy has taken the lives of many in South Korea, and Ryu--a special agent of OP, Korea's top secret intelligence agency--along with his cohort Lee, have devoted years to capturing slippery Hee to no avail. Ryu keeps his profession a secret from his pretty fiance, Hyun--a recovering alcoholic who runs a tropical fish store. Meanwhile, Hee's organization has hijacked a military truck transporting CTX, an explosive potent enough to destroy the entire city of Seoul, for potential use at a soccer match between North and South Korea, which is being staged as an attempt to heal the rocky relationship between the two countries. Ryu gets word of the potential destruction, but will he be able to find the mysterious Hee and stop it in time? Je-Kyu Kang's high-tech thriller surpassed all box office records in Korea by combining breathtaking action sequences with timely politics. [More]
Starring: Han Suk-Kyu, Choi Min-Sik, Kang-ho Song, Kim Yu-Jin
Starring: Han Suk-Kyu, Choi Min-Sik, Kang-ho Song, Kim Yu-Jin, Derek Kim
Director: Je-Kyu Kang
Director: Je-Kyu Kang
Screenwriter: Je-Kyu Kang
Producer: Lee Kwan-Hak, Byun Moo-Rim
Composer: Lee Dong-Jun
Studio: IDP Distribution
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Reviews for Shiri
Starts out a little like La Femme Nikita, but after a while, director Kang Je-Gyu's would-be bullet ballet goes way into overkill.
There's a neat twist, subtly rendered, that could have wrapped things up at 80 minutes, but Kang tacks on three or four more endings.
A good-looking but ultimately pointless political thriller with plenty of action and almost no substance.
Little more than an assemblage of cliches drawn from Hollywood and Hong Kong that, in the end, is almost risible.
It's obvious [Je-Gyu is] trying for poetry; what he gets instead has all the lyricism of a limerick scrawled in a public restroom.
The script was reportedly rewritten a dozen times -- either 11 times too many or else too few.
Ends up offering nothing more than the latest Schwarzenegger or Stallone flick would.
Sometimes makes less sense than the Bruckheimeresque American action flicks it emulates.
Starts as an intense political and psychological thriller but is sabotaged by ticking time bombs and other Hollywood-action cliches.
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