Doo namja

I... I have no idea what I was just watch. It's a nice action, the story how, it's just weird normal? I don't man. They story is easy to understood but they all just so dumb like dumb dumb but I like the romance he's really a good kid.

Good short movie with length like 1hr drama/series.

Straight forward, basically every1 is a mess in this movie eventho the cast is quite famous Korean celebrities.

Just wish the ending be like every1 look down and then still scene & cut to credits.

Maybe it'll be better if it ended like that.

If you want to watch this movie as part of the still relatively small catalogue of the slightly trending actor Dong-seok Ma (often playing a charismatic tough guy), you are likely to be disappointed and very bored. The movie is mostly about personality-less and rather pathetic teenagers (though I suppose they are partly supposed to be 20, or "college-age"), whereas Dong-seok Ma plays an unsympathetic tough guy, pressuring them into work and this and that. Completely uninteresting, without any likeable characters or actors (the movie made me realize how utterly personality-less teenagers are), slightly hypocritical advertising (see the movie poster).

DERAILED is a film I watched solely for Ma Dong-seok, one of my all-time favourite screen actors. I was hoping to see him bashing up the screen again as in classics like THE ROUNDUP and while we do get a few moments of such antics, for the most part this is largely a disappointment. Ma Dong-seok plays a supporting role and enlivens things whenever he's around, but the main characters are the usual whiny youths who do little to command the viewer's attention or, indeed, sympathy. The plot ebbs and flows, back and forth, with a typically unpleasant villain showing up to raise the stakes. I was a little bored by the experience.

For some reason then I have been putting off watching the 2016 South Korean crime action "Doo Namja" (aka "Derailed") until now in 2022. Why? Well, I am not sure really, I guess other movies just kept piling up, and I wasn't sure what I was missing out on here from director Seong-Tae Lee.

While "Doo Namja" is watchable, I don't feel like I have been missing out on a particular extraordinary movie in the history of South Korean cinema. Sure, the storyline was interesting enough, or at least certain aspects of it were, but I wasn't overly impressed.

The storyline here was a little bit all over the place, as the audience follow three different story arches, the one of Jin-Il and his friends, the one of karaoke bar own Huyng-Suk and the one of Sung-Hoon who has a grudge against Jin-Il after having gone to prison. Yeah, the storylines are nicely interwoven, but you never really get to submerge and delve deeply into any of the three storylines, which is a shame, because the movie could have benefitted by adding a bit more in-depth to the characters.

There is a good amount of action throughout the course of "Doo Namja", which seems rather real, as it is nicely shot and rather nicely executed on the screen. This definitely adds to the tough atmosphere that permeates the movie.

All in all, then "Doo Namja" is a watchable enough movie. I doubt that I will ever return to watch "Doo Namja" a second time, however.

My rating of this 2016 crime action movie lands on a five out of ten stars.