
In this fast paced action thriller, a taxi driver living in Yanji, Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in northeast China goes to South Korea when a local gangster offers him to carry out a hit on a professor in return for repaying his debt. In the meanwhile, he also searches for his wife who had come here but had not responded since 6 months. His suspicion of her betrayal makes his tension rise, before something unexpected happens that night on which he is prepared to kill ... (Full plot summary below)
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In this fast paced action thriller, a taxi driver living in Yanji, Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in northeast China goes to South Korea when a local gangster offers him to carry out a hit on a professor in return for repaying his debt. In the meanwhile, he also searches for his wife who had come here but had not responded since 6 months. His suspicion of her betrayal makes his tension rise, before something unexpected happens that night on which he is prepared to kill the professor. Soon, he finds himself running for his life from police and the mob, resulting in a lot of violent fights and intense car chases.
Leave your thoughts about The Yellow Sea.
| IFC.comMatt SingerFrenzy is fine, but a little bit more clarity, at least narratively speaking, would have been nice. |
| Cinema AutopsyThomas CaldwellAn exhilarating film with action that is breathtakingly kinetic and visceral. |
| Electric SheepMark StaffordI was never bored, it's fast and funny and edge-of-the-seat tense; it's just that I'd still like to see the end of the film it started off being. |
| GuardianPeter BradshawA deafening explosion of energy, gruesome violence and chaos. |
| ViewLondonIsabel StevensThe Yellow Sea is a genre film that has more to offer than just a high body count. |
| Urban CinefileUrban Cinefile CriticsProbably the year's best crime drama and might be confirmation that there is a new master of the genre, spinning tough as teak tales, ready to emerge |
| MovieMartyr.comJeremy HeilmanAn epic noir thriller that contains no small amount of excitement, it suggests that Na might well be the best action director currently working in Korea. |
| New York TimesManohla DargisA rush of a movie from South Korea that slips and slides from horror to humor on rivers of blood and offers the haunting image of a man, primitive incarnate, beating other men with an enormous, gnawed-over meat bone. |
| MSN MoviesWilliam Goss...does boast its fair share of gripping moments. |
| Time OutDavid JenkinsAfter a ruthlessly focused, almost-Hitchcockian first hour, Na’s film fans out into a flabby, multi-stranded gang war and loses all sense of purpose. |