That’s true, I guess my issue is mainly with the second act. For a good portion of the film we follow the lead character as he searches for a woman who we believe to be dead, while the killer is in police custody. For a thriller, there’s just no tension in this set up.

If they revealed that she was alive earlier and made it clear that the killer would be released by a certain time, we would have been more invested in the lead character’s search.

I don’t know, aside from The Wailing, his films aren’t really knock outs. The first 45 minutes of The Chaser is as good as Oldboy and I Saw the Devil, but it meanders like crazy in the second half.

The Yellow Sea starts off well too, but once the story gets going, I lose interest.

The Wailing is pretty fantastic though.

He looks like that orc in The Two Towers. “What about his legs? He don’t need those.”