Beterang
Veteran
Director:
Seung-wan RyooGuión:
Seung-wan RyooCámara:
Yeong-hwan ChoiMúsica:
Jun-suk BangReparto:
Jeong-min Hwang, Ah-in Yoo, Hae-jin Yu, Dal-su Oh, Yoon-ju Jang, Si-hoo Kim, Woong-in Jeong, Man-sik Jung, Kyeong Jin, In-yeong Yoo, Jong-hwan Park (más)Sinopsis(1)
Don, un policía veterano, se ha fijado como objetivo llevar ante la justicia al joven heredero de una poderosa megacorporación. No obstante, su jefe pronto recibe presiones para que le obligue a dejar la investigación, pero cuando un antiguo colaborador se convierta en víctima del millonario, Don hará de la caza del magnate una auténtica guerra. (Mediatres Estudio)
(más)Reseñas (1)
Veteran does not deserve attention for its cinematic qualities, entertaining spectacle or the director’s typically brilliant physical action choreography, though in these respects it is a very solid genre mix. Much more noteworthy is the fact that, contrary to expectations, this solid yet not especially exceptional film became the third most-watched movie of all time in Korea. In this respect, the film has a perfect exploitation-style narrative, which for most of the runtime only builds up the outrage toward the demonised, degenerate parvenu and then allows that outrage to be vented in a gladiatorial manner. Paradoxically, however, the narrative concurrently serves as a means of justifying police brutality or even straight-up glorifying it as a necessary way to make the bastards who remain beyond the reach of the law at least partially pay the price for their actions.
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