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Summary Jae-ho, who aims to become the number one in a crime organization, gets to build up trust with Hyun-su, an ambitious newbie in the prison. While they try to take over the organization after the prison release, their ulterior motives starts to emerge.

Directed By: Sung-hyun Byun

Written By: Min-soo Kim, Myeong-chan Park, Sung-hyun Byun

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  • 1 h 57 m
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The Merciless

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews
53
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Summary Jae-ho, who aims to become the number one in a crime organization, gets to build up trust with Hyun-su, an ambitious newbie in the prison. While they try to take over the organization after the prison release, their ulterior motives starts to emerge.

Directed By: Sung-hyun Byun

Written By: Min-soo Kim, Myeong-chan Park, Sung-hyun Byun

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews
53
40% Positive
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60% Mixed
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews
53
40% Positive
2 Reviews
60% Mixed
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0% Negative
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70
May 26, 2017
Although it could possibly be deemed a case of style over substance, Byun Sung-hyun’s The Merciless is an accomplished and well-structured South Korean noir thriller.
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67
May 26, 2017
It’s perhaps not a huge step-up to those already well-versed in recent Korean action cinema, but sturdy direction by helmer Jung Byung-gil, restrained hat-tips to genre films past and the well-paired male leads keep The Merciless from feeling like the summation of more famous films.
By Bradley Warren FULL REVIEW
60
An ultraviolent Korean crime film with plenty of swagger and visual brio, but still too generic to really stand out from the pack.
By Nick de Semlyen FULL REVIEW
60
May 26, 2017
A minor addition to the Korean action cinema canon, The Merciless offers thin pleasures in a glossy package.
By Stephen Dalton FULL REVIEW
40
May 26, 2017
By the end of this relentless, sprawling and bloody crime opera it may be you who is on your knees, begging for the damn movie to just hurry up and end it.
By Jordan Hoffman FULL REVIEW

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Production Company CJ Entertainment, Pollux Barunson, TMS Comics, TMS Entertainment
Duration 1 h 57 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://norainu-movie.com/
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Awards

Blue Dragon Awards
• 2 Wins & 8 Nominations
Grand Bell Awards, South Korea
• 1 Win & 8 Nominations
Korean Association of Film Critics Awards
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations

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