646f9e108c Jo Tae-Oh is a young man who was grown spoiled in a wealthy family. He keeps on committing pretty much every crime that one can think of. He tries to buy his way out of everything which almost always works but Detective Seo Do-Cheol won't let that happen this time. A detective hunts down a young and successful man. I saw already some very good Korean movies but this one isn't one of them. Even though it's all nicely shot and you can clearly see they had a budget for this movie it's still not a great movie. Maybe it's the Korean language, that sounds like they are always really angry when they speak. It's just an awful language if you ask me. I speak four different languages myself and none of them sounds that angry all the time. Add on that that the majority of the actors in Veteran are not that good and you get quickly bored. At least I was, the end couldn't come quick enough. In other circumstances Veteran could have been better. By that I mean if it was in English for example, with better actors, and with more realistic action scenes. Now it's a typical Korean action movie, one that I'm not a fan of. With a summer filled with less than mediocre domestic films busting blocks in box office we get a quality entertainment from director Ryu Seung-Wan. This is not an entirely original film but Ryu packs it with enough real life relevance and intrigue in the plot to keep the audience thoroughly entertained.<br/><br/>The plot which has the same structure as "The Public Enemy" series, very popular and also from Korea, follows a hardboiled cop trying to take down a psychotic rich kid after his acquaintance ends up in hospital. Both parties do what they do best. One follows leads and the other does whatever it takes cover it up.<br/><br/>As mentioned above, the film's action scenes and its general tone (comic reliefs, charismatic yet evil rich baddies) are very similar to Public Enemy series. However the story is more focused here with director Ryu's confidence in his own style.<br/><br/>The entire cast turns in solid performances but the standout is Ah In Yoo, making a real nasty playboy who can convincingly smirk and get under your skin. Also worth mentioning is Hae Jin Yoo who's presence in a film almost always indicate solid performances. He plays a man who needs to juggle around running the company and keeping the young maniac under control. In its final action sequence, fans of Korean cinema will chuckle at a familiar face making a goofy cameo.<br/><br/>So far Ryu hasn't made a single film that wasn't worth the admission price. Sure, his film can come off cheesy at times but they were never boring. Ryu's style can also compensate for not entirely original plots in films like "Veteran" and "Berlin Files". A great success in box office, this film will pretty much guarantee the director to make any film he wants to make next. Anything he makes, I'll be first in line.
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