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Information
- A.k.a.
- The City of Violence
- Year
- 2006
- Runtime
- 92 min.
- Director
- Seung-wan Ryu
- Genre
- Action
- Rating *
- 6.6
- Votes *
- 2,463
- Checks
- 268
- Favs
- 9
- Dislikes
- 11
- Favs/checks
- 3.4% (1:30)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:1
Top comments
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Siskoid
Ryoo Seung-Wan's The City of Violence. This story of childhood friends now clashing from different sides of the law pays homage to a large number of directors and styles, from John Woo to Scorsese to Peckinpah and sounds like a Tarantino movie. The action has a style all its own though, incredibly raw despite the set pieces veering on the ridiculous. Watch the fight with b-boys and the baseball team for example. There are too many stylistic flourishes for them all to work, but it remains a very entertaining tragedy which I might compare to Snatch in that sense. 7 years ago