I was actually impressed with her in "Coin Locker Girl". But because of the actress Kim Go-eun who seems to get better with each film. To be honest I wanted to check this movie, not because of the Korean super star two timing manipulative jerk Lee Byung-hun. The plot is jumbled and it didn't seem to know what direction it wanted to go. However that wasn't the case for this flick, it was super mediocre at best. Sometimes, the movies that I have no interest in ends up surprising me in a good way. However when it finally arrived in theaters I decided to give it a try. I wasn't really looking forward to this movie or anything. Overall it was not a bad movie to sit through. Which the movie does not have a lot of, but the little it does I was very impress with. It's a little misleading for those of us expecting more battle scenes from him, instead he plays more of a dramatic role that evolves romance, which I rarely see in Asian films cause I mostly deal in marshal arts action. It's the first time I did not see him in an action film with his shirt off holding a sword. He's somewhat a thing in the states, so I assumed that made him a huge star in his native land. I don't think I've ever seen Lee Byung-hun, who I know to be a actor from Korea, in a Korean film. The scope of Memories of the Sword was big and long (at two hours and sixteen minutes), and covered a lot of drama. The two movies are similar in their epicness, as they both had great cinematography that made it feel like a painting come to life and they seem to be working a very large story with lots of elements but is not too hard to follow, which is good for me cause subtitles can be too much to read sometimes. Another example for this is the finale, which emotional resolution is atįirst quite moving until the scene is stretched and overstuffed with art imagery to the degree that you can't take it serious anymore.I just saw another Korean epic called Assassination last week at my local theater so I thought I give this one a shot. Still look as if being copied and the director celebrates himself too much as well. Granted, the pictures really are gorgeous, but they Which are supposed to make the viewer drop his/her jaw with all the great picture aesthetics involved. Instead, there is a lot of air dancing and fast editing that alternates with slow motion shots The fights are characterizedīy a lot of wire-fu and oftentimes lack a martial arts fundament. Which manages to be particulary mesmerizing during the nature shots, it's also the sets' level of detail that impresses. Lee Kyeong-yeong ( "National Security") as the uber-master with a long white beard. The generally good acting achievements are topped off by Junho ( "Twenty") in a love story that lacks real elaboration and Still, Hong-yi isn't willing to kill her own "mother" and Yoo-baek happens to be the best fighter in the country. Seol-rang couldn't watch her beloved getting killed back in the day and thus became an accomplice to the murder of Hong-yi's Now, time has come for Hong-yi to kill her parent's However, his former girlfriend despises him with all her heart and also tells him so right to the face. Since Yoo-baek is still in love with Seol-rang he hopes to finally see his beloved again. But the rash girl Hong-yi shows off her skills during a martial artsĬontest and Yoo-baek instantly recognizes her fighting style. Power to strengthen his influence and one day become ruler of the whole country. By now, Deok-gi has become a high-ranking general who assumed the name Yoo-baek. That man's daughter Hong-yi has now been kept hidden and But Deok-gi betrayed the league and killed their friend Poong-cheon. Once, Seol-rang and Deok-gi (Lee Byung-hun) have been a couple and were part of the Three Swords, a league of justice that fought Story: Hong-yi (Kim Go-eun) is raised and taught swordplay by her adoptive mother Seol-rang (Jeon Do-yeon) in order to one day kill the
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