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Contains strong bloody violenceFun and bloody, The City Of Violence (Jjakpae) sees Jung Doo-hong play detective Tae-soo, one of four old friends reunited at the funeral of the fifth in their one-time teenage gang. Doubting the official story, Tae-soo and Suk-hwan (writer/director Ryoo Seung-hwan) team up to investigate the death, but the closer they get to the real killers, the more witnesses and whistle-blowers start showing up dead.
It swiftly boils down to a roaring rampage of revenge; and the Kill Bill references don't stop there, as Ryoo deftly mines the works of Tarantino - and the 1970s action movies that inspired him - in a slew of playful homages. We charge around town with our heroes from set-piece to crazy set-piece, culminating in a dazzling two-man assault on the bad guy's heavily guarded restaurant-fortress.
"SUPERIOR ENTERTAINMENT"
Showy and dizzyingly spin-heavy, the taekwondo sequences - as the pair take on skater gangs, schoolgirls, baseball teams, swordsmen, you name it - look fantastic, and are layered with oodles of humour, spills and originality. There's not much below the surface, and it does take time to get up to speed, but the jovial, high-energy approach and the endless charisma and athleticism of the leads makes for a superior slice of high-kicking entertainment.
The City Of Violence (Jjakpae) is released in UK cinemas on Friday 8th June 2007.
