“Apart from breathing, everything else is a lie.” – Korean Proverb The head of a large corporation is going to remarry. However, soon the bride is found dead, and suspicion falls on the daughter of a businessman.
Korean remake of the Chinese detective 2013 Silent Witness with Sun Honglei, Yu Nan and Aaron Kwok. The epigraph to this review most accurately characterizes the picture of the director Chong Ji Woo ("4th place", "Wisdom Tooth", "Eun Gyo", "Modern guy"). Specializing in dramatic stories, the director of the commercial genre frankly did not do. Even more amazing, to observe very weak attempts to twist the drama to an empty place.
The picture after a 20-minute tie becomes frankly boring, and the last third turns into torture. Very ridiculous plot twists, coupled with a sluggish pace, negate an already trivial concept. Moreover, having very rudely and absurdly designed the final “twist”, the author during the next 40 minutes even tediously begins to chew, apparently believing that “it will be clearer” and “more dramatic”.
Actors, in this case, a separate topic for conversation. I don’t know why this movie is called Choi Min Sik. The mother bison has nothing to play here. Trying to go beyond the scantly prescribed type, the artist simply has nowhere to deploy his power, which eventually turns into a very weak and strained semblance of prefinal emotions. The rest of the participants of this court tape look very ordinary, being more present to create a background environment. Pak Shin He (“Brother”, “Royal tailor”, “Beauty inside”, the drama “Doctors”) and Pak Hae Joon (“4th place”, “Casual detective”, “Hwai”, the drama “Wanted”) are standard idle in classical images. And Li Soo Kyung (“Yeon Sung”, “Chinatown”) very tightly played the role of the daughter. A little stands out from this gray mass Ryu Jun Yel (“Sidean”, “Little Forest”, “Taxi Driver”, “King”, “Sociophobia”, drama “Happy Romance”), but he also lacked a little drive and light.
Summing up: frankly failed on all fronts picture, which even with such a banal recipe, the efforts of a skilled director could turn into a strong genre sample. No miracle happened.
4 out of 10