Jaesim

Strongly Recommended.

One of Korea's finest films with excellent script, direction, and terrific performances by the two main leads. The story is based on a real miscarriage of justice and a lawyer who becomes the attorney and man he was meant to be through his hard work to clear a completely innocent young man. Strongly recommended as still one more entry in the growing cache of great Korean dramas and films from the best filmmakers in the world today. My only caveat is some scenes are graphic, wrenching, and heartbreaking, but they had to be to tell the truth, so steel yourself. Otherwise, the story is inspiring and lifting, and I think viewers will love both leads and the characters they play, so settle in for a great film.

Bad dialog. The leading actor is so annoying and unlikable. His constant overacting, non-stop exaggerating almost wore my patience thin and kill my interest to go on. Storyline is actually not bad but again, ruined by terrible dialog, just too cliched. The bad detectives' scenario was ridiculed, they looked and acted more like thugs or gangsters, completely dramatized and unrealistic.

a movie from reality and let us think about the surroundings. when i watched this movie, i ask myself "does it still happen".

staying in prison for ten years is a big thing. the story doesn't happened to you, but you may experienced local officers's bullying.

i only saw this news in newspaper before. maybe the press use only 20 words to state the fact. i only tried to guess what the victim's families live, but only getting a rough picture.

from this movie i know more about the feeling of the victim and his family. i think this is the most important thing of this movie.

I had no idea about this movie. It kept me really engrossed like what going to happen next. It showed the difficulty faced by the victim and his family when wrongly accused. The acting was superb especially by Kang Ha-neul. He nailed it and now I have become a fan of him and would love to see his awesome acting in other movies. I would really recommend this movie to viewers.

So if I had to write down everything that I loved about this film I would have to copy-paste the whole script with highlights and notes all over it, complete with thank-you letters to the actors and everyone involved in the making. Now, of course, some parts can be criticized but frankly I loved it too much to even dig for those.

The performances were beyond amazing, that hug scene took my heart and emotions, chopped it into million pieces and spit on it at the end. Absolutely superb. Kang Ha Neul never ceases to amaze me, and Jung Woo was -as always- freaking good.

Be it my love for films and cinematography or movies based on true stories or my undying interest in injustice and corruption of our societies or admiration for good performances or maybe all of these combined made this movie one of my all time favorites for sure