SYNOPSIS:
From C-Sky Enterprises: Sang-yun, Jung-woo, Jae-young and Ha-yun are
professional assassins for hire. Sang-yun is the cool-headed leader of the
group, Jung-woo is the specialist in custom-made bombs, Jae-young is the
unmatched sniper, and Ha-yun is the computer wiz. They're not your typical wise
guys, but professional killers with a heart.
They run a private business where people from all walks of life come to them and place an order. After they meet their clients and discuss the time, place and method by which they want their targets to be eliminated, they sign a formal contract. They even have a discount rate for students.
But one day, they leave a trail behind on a big job, and a police official named Inspector Cho hunts them down...
Korean action comedy written and directed by Jang Jin
Starring Shin Hyun-jun, Jung Jae-young, Shin Ha-kyun, Jung Jin-young and Won
Bin. Cinematography by Hong Kyung-pyo. Produced and distributed by Cinema
Service.
Running time: 120mins
Language: Korean with English subtitles
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REVIEW: Do you want to know what love is? Well, whether you do or don't, you will understand it a lot better after watching this film. Sorry for being cryptic, I will be direct from now on. So let's get to it by starting at the end. Rating: Guns and Talks gets a 7 out of 10 from me. |
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Check one point for creating having a good first 15 min
where there's enough eyepopping action to keep you interested. Explosions,
high speed car chase, a man gets shot, another breathes noxious gas and
dies. An obnoxious criminal is also thrown in the mix.
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| Add two points [half for each character] for
the four professional killers behind all this mayhem, Sang-yun [the cool
leader], Jung-woo [the bad tempered bomb expert], Jae-young [the crack
shot] and Ha-yun [the tag-along little brother of Sang Yun or if pushed,
the computer whiz of the gang]. They look cool as all professional killers would, smart suits and cool weapons to accessorise. The leader even looks like the Asian version of Sean Penn, fact!
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| They are appealing but sometimes as thick as planks. That's
wins two points from me because it produced some hard laughs. They watch
the news, in the morning, in a dopey daze because they idolise the
newsreader. They get intimidated by a high school girl and can't decipher
a simple English sentence.
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| Another point earned for the engrossing central
story. The gang murders a key police informant at the start and hence
triggers the law to be hot on their heels, in the shape of tenacious and
conniving, Inspector Cho. A cat and mouse caper ensues with interesting
results.
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| My complaint about Guns and Talks is that it tries
to do too much. Subplot overkill warning! It feels like every idea that popped into the writers' head was thrown into the film. Hence the film is too long and there are too many inconsistent threads to follow, detracting from the impact of the central story.
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| Other not so good points are unsuitable fancy
camerawork [split screens anyone?] and just the sheer implausibility of
certain situations [I'm not buying that!]
The eagle-eyed mathematicians amongst you would have noted that I've only given it 6 points. Aha..the last point is thrown in because I'm being generous. Hah!
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No it scores another point because overall it's a pretty slick and snappy comic/action movie. Don't take it too seriously and you're in for a good time. There's plenty to keep you amused. |
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