The Raincoat Killer: Chasing a Predator in Korea

Frustrated. So many things could've done better. The story only focus on the useless and incompetent police officers which I don't understand why this become the main view while the story could focusing more on the perpetrator himself. How he ended up being like that and such. And the reenactment scenes also doesn't make it sounds or seems thrilling to watch. This can be squashed up into one episode rather than stretching it out too much into three parts. Slow paced with no guarantee of clear closure for the viewers is risky.

"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.

They cops had me rolling in the first episode. I didn't know if they were real cops or comedians joking about the serious of the events. They really sounded scared!! If the cops have no back bones what is the public suppose to do?! It's a good watch and honestly I could see how easy it's to become a "serial murderer" in Korea. The fact this is recent too.

We were told his name, but were never shown his face other than from a distance. If he escapes again, which wouldn't surprise me, I wouldn't have a clue if he sat down beside me in a coffee shop. And what about his background? Did he work? Where did he go to school? What was he like as a kid? What did his friends or associates say about him? And why was he called the Rain Coat Killer other than the cops put a yellow coat on him while walking through public. Was it yellow so they could find him easily in a crowd if he decides to walk away from police custody again? Worth a watch, but poorly done in several other ways than what I mentioned.

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.