Movie rating: 7/10 Neck score: A
So, No Tears for the Dead. A very bloody action film. My little brother showed it to my older sister and I, so it was like a different kind of movie night. It has lots of swears. It has lots of violence. It's pretty darn cool. It also has Byun Yo Han in it for like two seconds. Just long enough for me to shout his name and get excited before it was over. Oh. It's ok, we've got Jang Dong Gun being bad-a. We're good.
It's about an assassin who starts to question whether he wants to remain as an assassin when his last job goes a little south. He is ordered to clean up his mess and bump off the wife of the man he just killed as well. There is a lot of him pretending to follow orders, then not following orders, and former buddies being mad that he's not following orders because now they have to kill him. So he's got to protect himself while he protects this woman, and all that jazz. It's pretty compelling.
The bad guys are total d-bags. I don't want to be violent, but they made me want to be violent because they were mean and gross. Kind of like how we hated the Ahjussi baddies. Like their deaths are super justified. So it has kind of a Die Hard meets Bourne Identity meets Ahjussi vibe to it, and I liked that. There were lots of conflicting emotions, especially since it was about the conflicting emotions of this poor hardened killer, this assassin who is super good at his job, but just a helpless little boy at heart. Much tears. So besides it being super violent and full of subtitle swears and not subtitle swears (in English too, since the bad guys were like Korean American- you've been warned) it was a tear jerker, really. Very interesting and super cool. The action was very cool.
