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82
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82
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82
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81
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54
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54
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52
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50
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45
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42
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42
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40
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40
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38
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36
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35
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28
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28
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22
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18
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16
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xx
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Shiri
Samuel Goldwyn Films
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for strong violence and some language
Starring
Choi Min-sik,
Han Seok-kyu,
Song Kang-ho,
Kim Yu-jin,
and
Lee Bang-hee
Spies from North and South Korea are pitted against each other amid the backdrop of reunification plans.
| GENRE(S): |
Suspense/Thriller
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Kang Je-Gyu
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Kang Je-Gyu
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: April 9, 2002
Video: April 9, 2002
Theatrical: February 8, 2002
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
124 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
South Korea |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
Korean (with English subtitles) |
Original title "Swiri"

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
90
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
In recent years, South Korean cinema has fully flowered, producing both uncompromising highly personal films and crisp, intelligent genre movies, with Shiri the most spectacular example of the latter to date.

80
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
An oddly effective mixture of technical prowess, well-executed cliché, and unexpected political poignancy.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Compelling, kinetic, fast and furious.

75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
This is an unmistakably Asian variant on the action movie, a sleek, slick, entertaining espionage thriller in the John Woo mold.

75
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
A beautifully tooled action thriller about love and terrorism.

63
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
The girl you see stabbing and shooting prisoners and fellow trainees makes the killer from "La Femme Nikita" look like a wuss.

60
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
Mr. Kang is a gifted choreographer of bloody chaos, but he has enough range and imagination to strew a few interludes of haunting tenderness amid the shell casings and ketchup packs.

50
TV Guide
Ken Fox
The all-too-vivid simulation of terrorist attacks, including a prolonged scene of a building collapse in which people are seen plummeting to their deaths and crushed under falling concrete, may strike a very different chord with post-9/11 American audiences.

50
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
The film actually gets to tackle some larger questions than one normally finds in the average fireball drama.
50
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
The action looks impressive, even when nothing much is happening beyond local explosions or shattering glass, and the drama turns, affectingly, on a mysterious female sniper with a partitioned soul.
50
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Americans, for better or worse, have already seen plenty of budget-busting action flicks with half-baked political pretensions.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Carla Meyer
Suffers most from being overlong.

40
Chicago Reader
Ted Shen
Shamelessly derivative and politically expedient.

40
LA Weekly
Paul Malcolm
Though the two-hour film can go slack with excess explication, Shiri compensates with an overheated drive that forces the myopia of current events toward a broader field of vision.

40
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Suffers from all the excesses of the genre: gunfights that go on and on and on, a plot that is almost incomprehensible.

40
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
High-powered and gory.

40
New Times (L.A.)
Andy Klein
Thankfully, the final, long action set piece, which owes a debt to "The Manchurian Candidate" among others, is free of such problems. Shiri manages to go out on its most exciting sequence. There are worse ways to go.

20
Film Threat
Phil Hall
A thoroughly awful Korean production which vainly attempts to recast the slam-bang conventions of American action-adventure flicks into the sticky world of contemporary Korean politics.


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