I Saw the Devil

Det är en brutal film som inte drar sig för att visa upp blodiga scener med mutilerade kroppar, tortyr och våldtäktsförsök.

...for stout-hearted genre aficionados—“sickos,” if you will—it’s essential viewing.

This gleefully black horror-thriller is a very classy follow-up to The Good, the Bad, the Weird for Kim Jee-Woon.

...doesn't rewrite the book, but it does take the familiar elements and pushes them far beyond extremes to brutal and mesmeric effect.

There is no denying that Kim Jee-woon is a phenomenal director, wrenching visceral thrills, dark humour and even occasionally an element of surprise, from all his stock set-pieces.