Kim Jee-woon's most extreme film is a study of revenge as moral contagion: the protagonist's slow transformation into the thing he hunts is delivered with a cruelty rare even in Korean genre cinema. Almost every scene contains a Hitchcockian reversal of who has the power.
Kim Jee-woon\'s revenge thriller keeps reversing the predator/prey roles until both men are unrecognizable — a Hitchcockian cat-and-mouse weaponized to its limit.
A secret agent takes revenge on his wife's killer.
Kim Jee-woon films a South Korean secret agent hunting his fiancée's killer. The revenge is methodical; the film is the genre's most disciplined argument against catharsis.
