
Newly-hired gofer Young-Jak Joo becomes a key pawn in a powerful South Korean corporate-crime family obsessed with sex, money, and intrigue. The family bribes a government official to take the heat off its young heir. The Yoons are so rich, they have no qualms letting the young bag-man cull the cash he's to deliver, from a storeroom jammed with 6 foot high stacks of money. Mr. Joo seems too obsequious and obedient to worry about, but when the wife of the company CEO sees on h... (Full plot summary below)
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Newly-hired gofer Young-Jak Joo becomes a key pawn in a powerful South Korean corporate-crime family obsessed with sex, money, and intrigue. The family bribes a government official to take the heat off its young heir. The Yoons are so rich, they have no qualms letting the young bag-man cull the cash he's to deliver, from a storeroom jammed with 6 foot high stacks of money. Mr. Joo seems too obsequious and obedient to worry about, but when the wife of the company CEO sees on her spy cameras, that her husband is having an affair with their maid, the infuriated matriarch orders Mr. Joo to have sex with her, then entrusts the befuddled Mr. Joo with monitoring the video screens.
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| Total FilmSimon KinnearIm Sang-Soo’s exposé of a Seoul family corporation is stymied by a humourless regurgitation of observations about power, corruption and lies. |
| Observer (UK)Mark KermodeSex, death, greed, corruption: they're all here in handsomely mounted and highly polished cases. Taste the money - smell the glove. |
| London Evening StandardCharlotte O'SullivanIt's ultimately wearing, yet somehow memorable. |
| GuardianPeter BradshawIt is a strange slo-mo farce, well directed, highly sexualised – shallow, but sleek. |
| Electric SheepRobert MakinA glossy, heavy-handed soap opera with all the complexity of a four-piece jigsaw puzzle. |
| PopMattersChris BarsantiThe story bounces about in a fashion that's as chaotic as the film's visuals are placid, suffused with sumptuous malice. |
| Independent (UK)Geoffrey MacnabThe director seems uncertain whether he is making a slow-burning character drama or a satirical gangster movie about modern-day Seoul's answer to the Borgias. |
| Irish TimesDonald ClarkeA veritable orgy of vulgar melodrama, The Taste of Money might pass as satire if the conclusions drawn were not so broad and unsurprising. |
| Little White LiesDavid JenkinsThis grotesque, luxe white-collar chamber drama from South Korea is often laughably bad. |
| Village VoiceChris PackhamIs there such a thing as "tastefully smutty"? Director Im Sang-soo's moody and semi-Shakespearian The Taste of Money walks that line with some artfully lit humping and cross-generational seduction. |