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9.3 out of 10

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  • Starring: Min-sik Choi, Suk-kyu Han
  • Summary: Spies from North and South Korea are pitted against each other amid the backdrop of reunification plans.
  • Director: Je-gyu Kang
  • Genre(s): Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Romance, Crime
  • Rating: R
  • Runtime: 125 min
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 18
  3. Negative: 1 out of 18
  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    90
    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.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Dana Stevens
    60
    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.
  3. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Phil Hall
    20
    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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  1. Positive: 6 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6

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