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- 2002
- R
- Samuel Goldwyn Films
- 2 h 5 m
- 2002
- R
- Samuel Goldwyn Films
- 2 h 5 m
Summary Spies from North and South Korea are pitted against each other amid the backdrop of reunification plans.
Directed By: Je-kyu Kang
Written By: Je-kyu Kang
- 2002
- R
- Samuel Goldwyn Films
- 2 h 5 m
- 2002
- R
- Samuel Goldwyn Films
- 2 h 5 m
Swiri
50
4.5
Where to Watch
Summary Spies from North and South Korea are pitted against each other amid the backdrop of reunification plans.
Directed By: Je-kyu Kang
Written By: Je-kyu Kang
Where to Watch
Top Cast
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
50
33% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
61% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
6% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
50
33% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
61% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
6% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
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.
A beautifully tooled action thriller about love and terrorism.
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.
Suffers most from being overlong.
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.
Suffers from all the excesses of the genre: gunfights that go on and on and on, a plot that is almost incomprehensible.
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.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 6 User Ratings
4.5
50% Positive
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17% Mixed
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33% Negative
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 6 User Ratings
4.5
50% Positive
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
17% Mixed
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33% Negative
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Production Company
CJ Entertainment,
CJ E&M Film Financing & Investment Entertainment & Comics,
Frontier Works Comic,
Kang Je-Kyu Film Co. Ltd.,
Samsung Entertainment
Release Date Feb 8, 2002
Duration 2 h 5 m
Rating R
Tagline No clues. No leads. No time.
Website
http://shiri.film.ru/
Awards
Grand Bell Awards, South Korea
• 6 Wins & 11 Nominations
Korean Association of Film Critics Awards
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
Asia-Pacific Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
