No
matter what kind of an impression you had earlier regarding Asian action and
gangster movies, New World will open your eyes to some thing so heart pounding
that when it ends you will be hungry for more. With well-executed bloody action
sequences and top of the line performances and with a twisted plot this movie just pulls you off
the chair more than once.
Though
some of Hollywood experts will call this a rip off of the great gangster flicks
like the Godfather or Departed I solemnly disagree to that statement as for the
fact that though this carries certain similarities it is brilliant and unique
in mostly Asian way.
New
World is a long movie that runs over 2 hours but it does not waste a minute. It
has this elegance that the Asian crime movies commonly has with gangsters in
dozens wearing clean suits and pitch-black and dustless cars that rolls on
blood money. With that beauty of cinematography with panning and high angle shots
New World creates a dramatically enjoyable crime thriller. And the music is so
good it just swiftly blends in to the scenes and gives the viewer goose bumps.
The
plot is not that complicated yet will take a while to make sense. It is twisty
beware but some might be able to foresee the ending from far. But there is no
solid assurance that thing will go as planned so viewer will stick to the end.
Even at the end it gives some answer and leave the viewer with more questions
perhaps. And all this thanks to the brilliant acting and direction.
Like
I said at the start no matter what opinion you have around New World there is
no doubt it is one of the finest of gangster crime movies you saw in a while.
Genre:
Crime | Thriller
Original
Title: "Sin-se-gae"
Country:
South Korea
Language:
Korean |Mandarine
Director:
Hoon-jung Park
Rating
: Genre 4/5 | Overall 3/5
-Priyantha Bandara
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