I Saw the Devil (2010)

2.5

11 Nov 2022

When he caught up with the killer an hour in, I was excited to see where this went… but it was just another 1.5 hours of catch and release, tit for tat, with a lot of gore and a bit of excrement for good measure

When it embraces how silly it is — the Rube Goldberg suicide guillotine, for example — I could engage. But so much of its 2.5 hour runtime is self-serious brooding and dick measuring all in the name of “real revenge”

Stars for special effects, fight sequences, and lead performances

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