Park Hoon-jung is back with another stylish-looking South Korean blood-and-mob fest, Night in Paradise (Nak-Won-Eui-Barm). The writer-director emerged on the Korean scene after authoring the screenplay of Park Chan-wook’s vendetta hit I Saw the Devil.
Among the films he's directed, the most relevant is the gangland crime drama New World, which was released in the U.S. in 2013.
The new movie has its moments, but also has dull stretches that many viewers are likely to fast-forward through to get to the next shooting and knifing scene.
Although it garnered a slot in Venice’s out of competition line-up, the real target of this familiar-looking action movie is certainly not festival but genre fans.
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