
Dong-chul (Gong Yoo) is the best field agent in North Korea - until he is abandoned during a mission, his wife and daughter murdered. Hunted and on the run, torn between grief and vengeance, he takes a job as a night driver for the CEO of a powerful corporation. The chairman is brutally assassinated - but gives Dong-chul a pair of glasses before he dies. Now, he's on the run again. Accused of murder, wanted for treason, and desperate to uncover the volatile national secrets h... (Full plot summary below)
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Dong-chul (Gong Yoo) is the best field agent in North Korea - until he is abandoned during a mission, his wife and daughter murdered. Hunted and on the run, torn between grief and vengeance, he takes a job as a night driver for the CEO of a powerful corporation. The chairman is brutally assassinated - but gives Dong-chul a pair of glasses before he dies. Now, he's on the run again. Accused of murder, wanted for treason, and desperate to uncover the volatile national secrets hidden inside the glasses. Dong-Chul wants the truth. And he'll start a war to get it.
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| L.A. WeeklyMichael NordineWitnessing this play out is more exhausting than exciting. |
| Seattle TimesTom KeoghIt's only January, yet perhaps not too soon to call "The Suspect" one of the best popcorn movies of the year. |
| User ReviewStephen OKorean action movies are the real reason for having netflix |
| User ReviewWiebke KKind of a Korean Bourne Identity without the loss of memory, and with some interesting takes on the connections between North and South Korea. |
| User ReviewScot Pyou dont need tons of words and a over written script when you have a story and characters that translate screen strength. |
| User ReviewGrant SJi Dong-Cheol is a South Korean agent working undercover in North Korea. He is now suspected of being a double agent and the South Korean government want him eliminated. They send in their top counter-spy, an old adversary of Ji Dong-Cheol's. He now has to stay alive and prove his innocence. Had the potential to be an intriguing John Le Carre-style spy thriller. However, the plot is overwrought and ultimately uses style to cover up its lack of substance. Some of the acting is pretty woeful too. The Colonel was massively over-acted, to the point that even John Wayne would have found the performance over the top. Lead performance by Yoo Gong is fine though. On the plus side, some great action sequences, but that is pretty much what the director was aiming for all along - the style-over-substance approach. |