The Vanished (2018) User Reviews

Nicely Put Together

[Foutainoflife · 7/10 · 17 November 2018]

This was a decent movie. For me, it leaned toward being more of a mystery than a thriller. It held my attention. It was worth the watch.

a VERY GOOD MOVIE

[yangyizhang2001 · 8/10 · 23 June 2018]

A very interesting movie with lots lots of twisting in it. very fulfilled& enjoy it very much!

Fresh attempt at a thriller with a major twist

[wallchuck-66562 · 6/10 · 11 March 2018]

I say "fresh" in that characters exist in 4 categories (knows & tells the truth; knows the truth but lies; tells the truth without fully aware of it; unaware and dishonest), and it becomes clearer to the viewer which is which as the movie progresses. Lots of potential plot devices were opened up at the beginning, but were never fully developed. I expect English subtitles will be VERY hard to create for this, if at all.

Perfect plot twist

[PedroPires90 · 7/10 · 29 June 2021]

I didn't know this was remake. If so, I would have preferred to watch the original.

About the film: it's a smart thriller with an average-to-good build-up and a magnificent plot twist. Good acting in general and very well executed.

Keeps the viewer interested

[phd_travel · 7/10 · 1 June 2020]

For World of the Married fans this is a chance to see Kim Hee Ae as a spouse being cheated on. Although more from the cheating husband's pov. Kim Kang Woo plays the guilty cheating husband who tries to kill his wife. The body disappears and the mystery deepens. Quite a few twists ensue like could she be alive? Keeps the viewer interested to see what happened. There is twist that I did not anticipate that clearly explains everything. It makes sense in that is possible but it's a long long way to get the result. Only thing is because of the POV from the husband it makes one root for him. OK watch.

Is this remake of "El Cuerpo 2012" really necessary?

[MovieIQTest · 8 July 2018]

First of all, when I watched this Korean film, I didn't know it's a remake of the Spanish film, "El Cuerpo (The Body/The Corpse) 2012", but I do remember that I've seen a similar film with exactly the same scenario and storyline before. So after I searched on google.com and imdb.com, I finally found the original Spanish one. But in the meantime, the reason why that made me went back to search in my memory lane was when I watched this Korean remake, some part of it made me feel uncomfortable and uneasy to watch on. Why I didn't have the patience to watch this Korean movie so early in the stage?

Well, it's because when watching films in this genre from Korea, Japan, Taiwan and China, they always put some stupid cast or exaggerated stereotyped characters in them. There is always a sloppy attired high I.Q. senior detective or chief inspector who is always so dangerously close to be fired by his direct moronic higher-up. This guy is always untraditional, either divorced or wife died not long ago, or daughter just died from some incurable disease or accident, so he's always depressed, drunken and chain-smoking. The murderer or the killer is always either a rich and powerful guy or a lower class maniac. These two leading opponents are inevitably stereotyped and to play such roles are usually the heavy wt. popular A-list actors. Well, what I want to say here is: These two guys are necessary hide-and-seek main characters, two necessary evils. But what about the other detectives under this senior detective? Well, as always, here comes the second but the most unbearable stupid arrangement, they are just a bunch of morons, clowns or yes-men. These lower level detectives never looked like what they should look like but totally incompetent and stupid. And funny enough, they always look like high school graduates or dropouts. Too young to become plain-cloth detectives, not even qualified for the lowest entry level uniformed cops. So in this Korean film, we got two stupid, timid male detectives and a bit smarter female detective who looked more like a high schooler, yet she is a detective in this film. Those two male detectives are the usual formulaic stereotyped morons, errand boys to the leading detective. They don't have any brain cell to solve the crime but only part of the setting to enhance the smartness of the leading detective.

The night watchman in this Korean film is a dumb old fart, but he's wearing a pair of high quality leather shoes with leather soles and heels, so when he walked along the aisles to check out the weird situation, his leather heeled shoes created a "click,click,click..." sound effect to increase the tension. Well, night watchman should wear rubberized soles working shoes or boots that won't create too much noise when he checks around inside the building. The Korean director made the guy wear such shoes which created such clear and sharp "clicking" noise when he walks around is another laughable arrangement that only would appear in Asian thrillers.

El Cuerpo rip off

[eventlaunch · 6/10 · 2 September 2019]

I suggest you watch the original Spanish movie the body (the corpse) much better plot acting and cinematography mind you South Koreans didn't do that much of a bad job it's just that it was full of cliches argh

Unecessary remake

[degesotoii · 6/10 · 21 October 2018]

Watch the original one instead, a spanish film titled "El Cuerpo". It's way much better.

FULL OF SUSPENSE!

[sueharriz · 9/10 · 14 December 2018]

If you love crime scene thriller, you'd enjoy this. the male character in this movie is talented, delivers his role so effectively, everytime he was shaken by new clues, he made it became so convincingly real. thumbs up!! recommended!

Remake of Spanish movie''The Body''

[Misss25 · 4/10 · 27 April 2021]

Trust me, the original one is far more better than this. I have watched two versions of this movie with different title,I guess. Everything is same except the quality!

A movie too great

[phatnlq-55-891085 · 10/10 · 28 April 2018]

An intriguing, suspenseful film that is a bit horror and especially the circumstances are extremely unexpected.

Its okay

[ansirahka · 5/10 · 13 June 2019]

The payoff isn't really worth the draggy storytelling

This film i recommended

[pnlqsx · 10/10 · 29 April 2018]

I watched this movie yesterday, and the unexpected things that the movie brought to my memory forever, but also stirring a little fear.

The Body 2012

[kolumbija · 1/10 · 14 October 2018]

This is remake spanish movie The Body 2012, and spanish edition is bether.

Quite the Mystery Ride!

[alisonc-1 · 8/10 · 19 July 2018]

Professor Park (Kim Kang-woo) is tired of his CEO wife Yoon (Kim Hie-ae), especially after he falls in love with one of his students. He devises a way to kill Yoon and get away with it: an untraceable (and extremely fatal) poison only ever developed in his chemical lab will be the means, and making her body vanish from the forensic morgue will be his salvation because, after all, no body, no murder, right? He feels completely safe when he discovers that the police investigating the case include a newbie, a by-the-book square and a kid only interested in his Instragram feed, all led by Jung-sik (Kim Sang-kyong) a once-brilliant but now sozzled detective. Only none of what Park sees happening is what it seems....It's difficult to describe the number of layers to this murder mystery, and I wouldn't want to say anything more about the plot because that would spoil the charm of the film. South Korea has a fantastic film industry, full of extremely talented people in all aspects from acting to directing to writing to creating strangely spooky forensic labs; this particular story is a remake of a Spanish film from 2012, "The Body," but it's a thoroughly Korean film by the end. A joy to behold - but don't take your eyes off the screen or you might miss yet another twist of the tale!

Rather unnecessary

[Leofwine_draca · 5/10 · 23 April 2021]

THE VANISHED is the South Korean remake of the 2012 Spanish thriller THE BODY and watching it you wonder why they bothered. It sticks so close to the plot of the original movie that it doesn't really have an awful lot to say for itself, which is a pity. I wasn't a big fan of the original movie in the first place, finding it quite average, and so it goes here. The film is well made and acted as always, but I just found the storyline dragged out too much, and by the time of the closing twists I found the whole thing rather unbelievable.

It was good. Not extraordinarily, but just good.

[aya-63194 · 4/10 · 17 October 2022]

So I'll do my best to give a review without spoilers.

The way they built and kept the suspense did have me completely drawn in to the story, every second of it.

Almost each scene had something worth noticing and the movie has u putting pieces together as if you were involved in the investigation too rather than just watching it.

It had little to no boring moments.

There were many possible theories at what the answer/truth could be in the story and you could only come close to what exactly happened mere minutes before it is finally revealed.

The acting was fine.

And overall the story really left me with bittersweet feelings.

Another twisted justice story full of deceit

[sophiamarinova · 5/10 · 22 November 2022]

The movie was for sure slow, dimly lit too. Acting is as usual good though nothing to talk home about. Had some pretty significant and at times interesting twists. Although slow, it was somewhat engaging throughout. For me, I have a strong dislike of messages that it's ok to bring justice by heavy handed deceit, unethical and inhumane behavior. A young woman sleeping her way to encourage murder is worse than an accident in my view because it's fully intentional. Walking on a dark road at night can lead to an accident for any driver God forbid! What mother would do that with her young daughter? The policeman had his fault for allowing this situation for his family. The only sympathetic character out of the four main ones here is professor Park who had retained human emotions. The wife was beyond terrible and overall he was badly used by two women neither of which had real love for him. Overall in spite of its engagement value, this is a morally corrupt twisted story.

lacks originality, still ✔ for its entertaining value .....

[THEgongoozler · 5/10 · 23 December 2021]

There is a major theme in Korean cultural products: the rich and powerful (specially big company's bosses) doing bad things, covering up successfully for a while, then a fearless hero/heroine comes out to break all hell loose, and the justice is done. It's a common theme in probably every country. But Koreans in particular emphasize on making this kind of "class struggle" movies/TV shows. THE VANISHED (2018) is every bit about such "wishful thinking."

Although the plot is really unconvincing, no serious flaws to be criticized on production and cast's performance. It's an acceptable weekend entertainment for Asians and non-Asians alike.