Assassination (2015)
Amsal (original title)
Director: Dong-hoon Choi
Writers: Dong-hoon Choi & Ki-cheol Lee (screenplay)
Cast: Ji-hyun Jun, Jung-jae Lee, Jung-woo Ha
Genre: Historical Action Thriller
Language: Korean
"While Korea is occupied by the Japanese Army in 1933, the resistance plans to kill the Japanese Commander. But their plan is threatened by a traitor within their group and also the enemies' forces are hunting them down. "
I liked it...It's not the usual type of movie that I watch either, as I generally don't care for action films. But
Assassination has a good mix of social political history, back story, impressive shooting locations & sets that were rich in detail and gave me the feeling I was in Shanghai or Seoul...And there's just enough light humor included, that for me made all the gun play fun, as this wasn't gruesome, it was more like a James Bond film.
I also really liked that the film had a female protagonist in the lead. Usually in an action film, if it's got
girl power, it has more heart and more story/character detail too. I liked that...and I liked the actress who played Money Girl. I liked her companions too, who were all colorful.
I also liked how they incorporated the ever present Japanese occupation into much of the story. The occupation felt very real here, and not just an after thought.
Speaking of the occupying Japanese Imperial army in Korea, did they really commit such a horrible massacre as described in the film? If that's true then those war crimes are some of the worst atrocities I've heard of ever being commented.
I did have a hard time following the story at first, mostly because I don't speak Korean and it was a more involved story line. I was a bit confused as to who was who at times. But in the end I got it all figured out and had fun with the movie.
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