Genre: Drama, Crime
Starring:
Jung Woo-sung as Min
Ko So-young as Romi
Lim Chang Jung as Whan
Yu Oh-seong as Tae Soo
Release year: 1997
Language: Korean
Subtitle: English (hardsub)
SYNOPSIS:
This movie follows the story of three friends in Korea, all three of whom drop out of school. The main character is Min, a tough guy whose widowed mother is a drunk. The story traces his journey from high school to the underworld as one of his friends introduces him to life in the mob. Complicating Min's life further is his romance with Romi, a girl from an upper-class family with dreams of going to a prestigious college.
RATING: ?/10
REVIEW:
Have you ever seen an Asian gangster movie? No? Well, have you ever seen any gangster movie? If the answer is Yes, then you know how this one will end because it’s simply a South Korean version of the very, very familiar “young tough rises through the criminal ranks through courage and brains and blood only to meet a bad end” storyline. It’s all been done before, and sometimes better, sometimes worst. “Beat” is not the worst of the lot, but it’s not the best of the lot by a long shot.
There are some things about “Beat” that lends itself to being liked. The movie is very fast-paced and moves through many years in the lives of a small group of intimate characters, so there are revelations, changes, and a constant sea of turmoil taking place. Nothing ever really stands still, like life itself. Things are always happening, the world is always changing, and you’ll never be bored.
That being said, “Beat” does little except not bore its viewer. For one, the story is tried and true and been done to death. In homage to its American counterparts, the director even namedrops Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas”. So it’s no surprise that “Beat” doesn’t break any new grounds. In fact, the only thing it adds to the young-gangster-on-the-rise-only-to-be-doomed premise is the addition of the very South Korean tradition of taking the state college
level entrance exam. One character, a friend
of the female lead, does so poorly on the college entrance exam that instead of facing her parents, she flings herself in front of an oncoming train. The female lead, Romi, is so traumatize that she goes insane and has to be committed for a couple of years.
As I said, it’s all been done before, but at least it’s very entertaining this go-round.
Source: BeyondHollywood
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