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  • 2005
  • Not Rated
  • Echelon Studios
  • 1 h 40 m
  • 2005
  • Not Rated
  • Echelon Studios
  • 1 h 40 m

Summary A lurid fable of obsessive love, using a potent mix of dark romance, surrealist technique, and violent action. Bad Guy paints a picture of a dark, hauntingly unforgettable neon-lit world, where two unlikely lovers meet on their own lonely street. (LifeSize Entertainment)

Directed By: Kim Ki-duk

Written By: Kim Ki-duk

  • 2005
  • Not Rated
  • Echelon Studios
  • 1 h 40 m
  • 2005
  • Not Rated
  • Echelon Studios
  • 1 h 40 m

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Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 17 Critic Reviews
49
User Score Generally Favorable
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Summary A lurid fable of obsessive love, using a potent mix of dark romance, surrealist technique, and violent action. Bad Guy paints a picture of a dark, hauntingly unforgettable neon-lit world, where two unlikely lovers meet on their own lonely street. (LifeSize Entertainment)

Directed By: Kim Ki-duk

Written By: Kim Ki-duk

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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35% Positive
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53% Mixed
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12% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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53% Mixed
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80
The most emotionally satisfying pic to date by Korean iconoclast Kim Ki-duk.
By Derek Elley FULL REVIEW
70
The film works best as a passionate tale of obsessive love, with two people brought together under harrowing circumstances.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
63
Low, mean and depressingly plausible.
By Liam Lacey FULL REVIEW
50
What begins, rather promisingly, as a visceral yawp against class difference in contemporary South Korea slowly devolves into a prolonged exercise in pointless sadomasochism.
By Carina Chocano FULL REVIEW
50
The audience is subjected to a series of emotional contortions, encouraged to experience them voyeuristically, and then scolded for doing so. The bathetic music Kim favors is profoundly at odds with his chilly attitude toward the characters.
By Hank Sartin FULL REVIEW
40
Ghastly.
By Chuck Wilson FULL REVIEW
25
Becomes more and more confused, unpleasant and preposterous.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW

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Production Company LJ Film, Prime Entertainment
Release Date Feb 18, 2005
Duration 1 h 40 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline Trapped in a world of pleasure and pain ...
Website http://www.badguythemovie.net
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Awards

Grand Bell Awards, South Korea
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Fukuoka Asian Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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