There are many good things about this movie, unfortunately, it has just as many problems.
First of all, this is not a movie for a faint of heart. It's gory, shocking, and will make you uncomfortable. However, these scenes were there not for pure shock value, but rather, to serve as a bold, direct look at the absolute worst of humanity. For the most part, this direction worked, and helped set this movie apart from other horror, thriller flicks. The direction and cinematography were also gripping and competent. Every actors did their best, and the two main characters, particularly Choi Min Sik's murderer, were very well performed. All of this created a powerful, brutal, and almost impossible to look away movie. However this only maintain for about 2/3 of the way.
This movie has a major flaw, and that is the script. The basic idea is an interesting one, and the execution was competent. However, the script as a whole lacks gravity in many parts, things happened that feel forced and unnecessary, and toward the end, it slipped into zone of stupidity (Characters that set up to be "smart, cool" yet didn't see the most obvious things that would definitely happened. The police was a complete and utter joke...etc...) In fact, the last 20 - 30 minutes of the film was so poorly written, it almost single-handedly killed all the goodwill that it has been building up for over an hour. Ultimately, I left with a rather bad taste in my mouth.
Review of I Saw the Devil
