[quote name='gbpackers94']How was secret reunion?[/QUOTE]
We give ratings to all of the films we watch and my brother and my friend gave it 9.8 and 9.7 respectively. I ended up giving it a 7.8.
The flick was relatively entertaining. The direction was merely adequete (the action and a bit of how the story plays out felt kinda' forced). The actors' interaction was great, but Song Kang-Ho is usually awesome, and there's quite a bit of humor to be had through the whole thing. Overall, it was enjoyable.
After a night of thinking about it, I'd rate the films in the following order, best to worst:
01. Sword of the Stranger (Pretty amazing samurai film about a rogue samurai who ends up protecting a chinese child with a dog who is meant to be sacrificed. FANTASTIC soundtrack. Watch in original language!)
IMDB: 7.7/10
02. Gachi Boy (Quite touching and charming film about a guy that has Memento like short-term memory loss and ends up joining the local high school professional wrestling club. Because of his memory issues, he ends up forgetting that pro-wrestling is fake and ends up wrestling for real. I really, really liked this.)
IMDB: 7.1
03. Aachi & Ssipak (The first Korean animated film I ever saw. It was pretty entertaining for what it was, with A LOT of over the top gross-out innuendo, but I don't think it's for everyone.
The set-up is about a bunch of low-level crooks who live in a word where SHIT is used to generate power (payment for shit is dealt in the form of addictive juicybars) and try to get rich through a girl who ends up getting massive amounts of juicybars for every shit she takes. Yeah...)
IMDB: 7.0
04. Bedevilled (It's basically a slow-burn revenge flick starring the chick from The Chaser. This horrid, bitch of a woman from Seoul ends up vacationing to her home island only to see the redneck hicks she left behind treating her old friend like worthless dog crap. Shit hits the fan halfway through the film, and I'm sure you can assume the rest.
None of the characters were particularly likable and a third act roll-your-eyes plot contrivance turns what would have been a rated much higher film into facepalm territory. Still the first two-thirds of the film are definitely worth checking out as the acting is top-notch and everyone hits their beats pitch perfect.)
IMDB: 7.4
05. Symbol (Pretty hilarious absurdist comedy that lost me in the last five minutes.
Basically a Japanese guy wakes up in a white room with no windows or doors. When he presses a mysteriously phallic protuberance that appears on one wall, a pink toothbrush materializes from nowhere, clattering to the floor and setting in motion a genuinely bizarre chain of events. Soon the imprisoned man is engaged in absurd and hilarious attempts to escape the gleaming room, releasing random objects from the walls, creating a life sized mouse trap game.
The ending goes more for weirdness than humor and falls flat, betraying what had been built up earlier in the film. If you feel like laughing your ass off though, check it out.)
IMDB: 7.3
06. Secret Reunion (Great acting. Great setup. Lifeless direction. In the hands of a even a moderately better director, this would have been a classic. Here it's simply competent. But my friend and brother loved it so maybe I missed something.)
IMDB: 7.2
IN' AWESOME.
