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Nowhere to Hide
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Mixed or average reviews
Based on 14 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 5 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy
Written by: Myung-se Lee
Directed by: Myung-se Lee
Release Date:
Theatrical: December 22, 2000
DVD: April 17, 2001
Running Time: 110 minutes, Color
Origin: South Korea
Language(s): Korean (with English subtitles)
Summary
RATING: Not rated
Starring Dong-Kun Jang, Ji-Woo Choi, Sung-kee Ahn, and Joong-Hoon Park
After a gang murder, a detective force of seven men must hunt down the killer and leader of a massive drug cartel.
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What The Critics Said
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...
New York Post V. A. Musetto
The entire film is a feast for the eyes that brings to mind the work of Hong Kong ace Wong Kar-Wai.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Lee pushes this joyride into stimulation overdrive, playing with colors and film speeds and surfaces and shadows until it makes perfect sense that a movie should be all about energy, rather than -- well, about anything else at all.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
For all his mastery of his medium, Lee is no less effective in directing actors than in creating images.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector
Images about imagery can be diverting, even insightful, but this painterly 1999 feature piles up studies in elaborately choreographed motion that are their own reason for being.
Read Full Review >The New York Times A.O. Scott
This crowd-pleasing spectacle is like a series of showstopper sequences from a musical without much attention paid to the story that is supposed to hold it all together.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
Lee can't tell a story to save his life, but he's something of a visual magician, laying out glittering piles of goodies that you instinctively want to follow.
Read Full Review >Mr. Showbiz Michael Atkinson
The first 15 minutes of Nowhere to Hide rock, and after that it's got nowhere to hide from its own excesses.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
The characters are uniformly repulsive, the cliche-ridden script builds no real tension or psychological interest, and the bottom line is that Lee's innovative but ultimately tedious and even ludicrous MTV-style visuals add absolutely nothing to the story dynamics.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
The action of this South Korean melodrama is fast and furious, but its emotions and ideas don't manage to keep up.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
A Korean film that takes an American genre and gets fancy with it.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Dennis Lim
Lee's trickery is dazzling in flashes but also monotonously strenuous -- the derangement factor is high but there's little evidence of authentic lunacy.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.8 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Jack gave it a 9:
A funky, jazzy cop movie with a weak plot but plenty of eye candy... lots of fun.
Charlie P. gave it a 10:
I loved the movie and the tasty Girlfriend!
Scrooge gave it a 7:
Very interesting blend of styles in a amalgam of cops and robbers drama. Some humour and unexpected action.
Gillian D. gave it a 9:
Quality visuals used to both dazzling and comedy effect. Reminiscent of The French Conection for the main character and for the endless chase sequences and sturdy detective work. It falls down in places but this party the point as it tries to parody the 70's cliche's of cop movies, there are a couple of laugh out loud moments and a few genuinley brilliant set pieces, all adding up to a great and memorable film.
