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6.7/10 • 163

2022-08-102h 11m

ActionMysteryDrama

Two rivals, a hidden truth.

After a high-ranking North Korean official requests asylum, KCIA Foreign Unit chief Park Pyong-ho and Domestic Unit chief Kim Jung-do are tasked with uncovering a North Korean spy, known as Donglim, who is deeply embedded within their agency. When the spy begins leaking top secret intel that could jeopardize national security, the two units are each assigned to investigate each other.

Directors
Lee Jung-jae
Writters
Lee Jung-jae, Jo Seung-hee
Editors
Lee Jung-jae, Kim Sang-bum

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Lee Jung-jae

    Lee Jung-jae

    Park Pyong-ho

  2. Jung Woo-sung

    Jung Woo-sung

    Kim Jung-do

  3. Jeon Hye-jin

    Jeon Hye-jin

    Bang Ju-kyung

  4. Heo Sung-tae

    Heo Sung-tae

    Jang Chul-sung

  5. Go Youn-jung

    Go Youn-jung

    Cho Yoo-jung

  6. Kim Jong-soo

    Kim Jong-soo

    Director Ahn

  7. Jeong Man-sik

    Jeong Man-sik

    Yang Bo-sung

  8. Lim Hyung-kook

    Lim Hyung-kook

    Transposer

  9. Jung Kyung-soon

    Jung Kyung-soon

    Chun Bo-san

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CinemaSerf

Nov 17, 2022

6/10

"Park" (director Lee Jung-Jae) and "Kim" (Jung Woo-sung) run the foreign and domestic teams of the South Korean equivalent of the CIA when an attempt is made to assassinate their President whilst on a trip to Washington DC. This politician came to power in a coup, in the 1980s, and he has no shortage of enemies. As the story develops, we discover that there is enormous pressure on these men to find out how the would-be killers knew so much about their boss's itinerary. Is there a mole - the legendary "Donglim", and could he/she have infiltrated their organisation? Pretty soon, a climate of fear and angry competition causes these two men to come to loggerheads as they try to detect the spy and keep their jobs, and they resort to ever more unscrupulous and violent means to achieve their goal before a summit in Bangkok. As is so often the case when an actor directs a film, the production can lack for an objective eye. The story really loses it's way once or twice as the investigations progress. I found it quite difficult to follow who was doing what to whom; who was on whose team and the pace was really quite sluggish at times. There is a great deal of dialogue but none of that really serves to build the characters into people in whom we could readily invest, and there are a couple of cluttering sub-plots that make little sense, or add much richness, until right at the very end. That ending has a twist that, though intriguing, is a bit contrived and I found rather implausible and I am afraid that I left the cinema underwhelmed.

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Status
Released
Original Language
Korean
Budget
$17,000,000.00
Revenue
$25,994.00
Keywords
assassinespionagespyintelligencesecret agent1980skorea presidentsouth koreainter-korean relationsnational intelligence service (nis)chun doo-hwan