The Raincoat Killer: Chasing a Predator in Korea

"The Raincoat Killer", et al, is a documentary on how, despite being one of the most abjectly inept police forces to exist, the Seoul, Korea police caught a serial killer. Apparently, the Seoul police worked on a reward basis for promotion, so they didn't bother themselves with any other crimes but murder; you'd think they'd have been better at it. The documentary is incredulously amusing at times, which is disturbing. It also gave insight into who the P. D. found valuable in society and who they didn't/don't.

I like to watch true crime documentaries. "Raincoat Killer" is unusual because (1) the serial killer is in Korea, a country with a low crime rate, and (2) many of the various law enforcement personnel are emotionally connected to the crimes in a significant degree. I thought the doc was well worth watching.

As an aside, I'm perplexed by many of the early reviews here by self-styled "film critics." Nearly all of them are either unreasonably negative or unreasonably positive. I sense a definite bias by these 20-35 year-old "film critics." If a movie is made by Marvel, or is pretentious, or has dragons, hobbits, vampires, or zombies, it gets a '10.' If a movie has a serious, mature subject matter, it gets rated 4 to 6. A user of imDb should always keep this in mind.

A very interesting true crime story, but a poorly made documentary. Spending a lot of time focusing on the psychological profiling of the killer and rushing through 'investigations' and aftermath. A strange storyline that's for sure.

Ye Gods, this is like watching the Tiger King of serial killer documentaries. I have never, in my *life*, seen such a grotesquely, comically, inept and incompetent pack of Keystone Cops outside of, well, you know......

It's just jaw-dropping.

I was very surprised by this documentary I was actively waiting for - & not in a good way.

Very very little original material.

Weird filler scenes, newly filmed 'dramatisation' material, to 'illustrate' what these 'detectives' are talking about.

Mostly subjective blabber from inept detectives remembering stuff, and statements - like him being the first serial killer in korea (what??) - ... i will be needing fillers to counteract the forehead wrinkles i got during watching this one.

And not once did they show him (without a mask) or play recordings of interrogations.. everything is re-enacted.. Ugggh, i'm disappointed.

After that i googled a bit of course and found more facts & information on a blog than was laid out these 3 hrs.

I think they should have made a podcast out of this material and not a 'documentary'.