Waste of time

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Saw this recently on a rented DVD. What an amazing action flick man. The plot - After accidentally killing a young girl during a hit, the hit-man is traumatized by the event. Soon, he is assigned by his contractors to then eliminate the young girl's mother, causing further conflict for the damaged hit-man. Expectations were high as this is from the same director, Lee Jeong-beom who gav us The Man from Nowhere. Jang Dong-gun (My Way) gav a stunning performance as the haunted and complex hit-man. His action choreography was awesome. The films many violent action scenes are quite well executed. In short, this is a very stylish, emotional, high octane action flick. The action sticks to blazing shootouts, some slick close-quarter-combat - brutal n engaging, and some knife play. Most of the action is towards the second half of the film. The rooftop shoot-out is one of the best action sequence. The gunshots scenes, especially the shot gun scenes were violent n blazing. (Myself a fan of shot gun action sequences). Fans of Michael Mann n John Woo will love the gun action scenes. Fans of Heat, Miami vice (final shoot-out), The getaway (Steve Mcqueen one), Hard boiled, The killer, Tombstone, etc will definitely enjoy this.

Gon is a killer whose new mission is to get some data and then kill the woman that has it, a woman that happens to be the mother of a little child he killed by accident on his last mission. Of course, Gon grows a conscience and decides to betray his bosses and safe the woman."No Tears for the Dead" is not the most original movie in the basket. It is predictable, lame and you will see any plot development from a mile away. It doesn't help that the pace and direction are not very good, and the action scenes are shrouded in darkness making everything quite difficult (and boring) to follow. The acting ranges from B-movie level to okeish to I-don't-know-I-was-an-actor level, and the lead actor, Dong-gun Jang, fails miserably in bringing any charisma to Gon. Min-hee Kim as Mo-kyeong, the woman who may or may not have the data the triads are searching for, fares better, as does also Brian Tee with a paper-thin character that is just there to allow him to look cool.An action movie should at least have some cool action, and action scenes that make sense and are entertaining. "No Tears for the Dead" forgot the action rule-book home and offers neither of them.

People constantly ask me in my media class why do I watch foreign films, to reply I show them the trailer to this film as well as a couple of others.This film is among my favourite action films up there with the likes of The Raid 2.The film follows a hit-man that just wants to get out of the game after accidentally killing a young girl but instead of being left alone his employer asks him to kill the mother of the girl he killed. While being a simple plot it is used as a way to discuss themes such as the grief attached to the loss of a loved one and the job of parents.The character's of the hit-man (Gon) and his target (Mo-gyeong) are both well drawn out and complex, each suffering and dealing with it in there own ways.The action sequences are some of the best I have seen outside of The Raid films. One scene in an apartment block shows a incredible knife fight as well as a dramatic shootout that seem all to real for what we see on the news.While you could accuse the film of having some pacing issues after the first ten minutes of the film I see it as a pay off and believe me after the first hour you will be rewarded with incredible action and brilliant character moments.To say No Tears For The Dead is better than The Man From Nowhere (Done by the same director) would be incorrect. However this film is still incredible and is worth watching if you like Korean cinema and want to see a realistic bloody action thriller with some dark moments that you don't often see in western productions.

"No Tears for the Dead" is a modern day thriller set in Korea. It is partly in English and the rest is in Korean with subtitles. The film is from 2014 and it is currently on NetFlix Instant Download Streaming. It is written and directed by Jeong-beom Lee. The actors include Dong- gun Jang, Min-hee Kim, Brian Tee, Hee-won Kim, Jun Sung Kim, Jennifer Buttell, Yo-han Byeon, Alessandro Cuomo, Darell M. Davie, Anthony Diio, Christopher Hackney, Alexander Stephen Kabel, Dana Lee, Sung-wok Min, Kang Han Na, Tich Ting, Alex Wrath. The movie is about a hit man from America's mid-west who is of Korean decent. When he botches what was supposed to be his last job by killing an innocent kid, he is sent to Korea to fix what he screwed up by killing the kid's mother. It sounds a bit like a fish out of water story, but the movie only proves that the crime world is the crime world no matter what country you are from. Some of the criminals were speaking up to three different languages, but in the crime game there are only two languages in you really need to know …money and guns. I gave it a score of 6 stars. Dale Haufrect