The Berlin File (2013)
Average Rating: 4.6/10
Reviews Counted: 10
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 7
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Average Rating: 5/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 5
No consensus yet.
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A tense illegal arms deal in a Berlin hotel suddenly descends into mayhem after a "ghost" agent named Jong-seong (HA Jung-woo) appears on the scene. Secretly watching the deal go down is embattled South Korean intelligence chief Jin-soo (HAN Suk-Kyu), the North Koreans and the US CIA, who are all left trying to decode whether the ghost is a double-agent or taking the fall for a more insidious plot. Myung-soo (RYOO Seung-bum) a young, notorious North Korean agent jumps into these treacherous
Feb 15, 2013 Limited
CJ Entertainment
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Cast
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Jung-woo Ha
Pyo Jong-Seong -
Suk-kyu Han
Jung Jin-soo -
Gianna Jun
Ryeon Jung-hee -
Ryoo Seung-Bum
Dong Myeong-soo -
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All Critics (10) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (7)
There is something sharp, exciting and more original tucked within "The Berlin File" - and it is in moments a sleek, crackling film - but it all feels somehow misshapen.
Top CriticAs soon as "The Berlin File" takes flight with its exhilarating action set pieces, memories of any muddles evaporate amid the tension and vivid engagement with settings, from courtyards to fields.
The Berlin File benefits from gritty surroundings that add a cold war realism to this otherwise confusing tale of conflicted loyalties and secret agendas.
The story feels fairly perfunctory - not to mention unnecessarily knotty - but the well-connected leads do their best to ground it.
[A] formulaic but solid Cold War-style spy thriller, with North Korea pinch-hitting for the Soviet Union.
Everything here, except the action scenes, [feels] sluggish and rote.
The movie offers just about all you could ask of a genre flick: poisonings, defections, a secret North Korean bank account, gloriously choreographed fights that go insanely over the top, febrile tension and doomy romance (but no sex).
'The Berlin File' takes Hollywood's penchant for spectacle and ADD visual neurosis to its logical albeit absurd conclusion.
A sporadically entertaining, modestly ambitious shoot 'em up that frequently succumbs to spelling out its subtext.
The plot may be a challenge to figure out, but this crisply directed spy thriller from Korea holds your attention through its overall smooth professionalism.
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