Helpless (2012)
7/10
no longer surprised ..
16 September 2013
Warning: Spoilers
By the tight Korean production professionalism that is.

The story origin is an Japanese crime genre novel. I think there was a Japanese series of movie once. I did not see that.

Story is around the sudden disappearance of the fiancé of the male lead when they were on the way to meet the in-laws. This all happened at a gas station. Then the relentless of the male lead, hooking up with his estranged cop(ex?) brother who is very detail oriented, try to find out what happened. And the more they go, the more unknowns were uncovered.

The original title was Train (as in inevitable), was used so many other before, implies the inevitable that will come. The foreseeable ending and that truth will always come out, if you dig hard enough ? But is this movie good enough? I was swaying between a 7 and 8.

7 because , the male lead , for me, is a bit over the top. The cop brother slightly better. 8 because of the tightness of the story.

I get that the movie wants you to be in that shoe of helpless, not knowing what happened to your most significant other. But he really didn't know her from the beginning. So the emotional hook wasn't really there ?
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