This is action-thriller feather preening, but all the wit in the world can't hide the narrative sprawl that rots from within.
New World(신세계)
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Korea · 2013
2h 14m
Director Park Hoon-jung
Starring Lee Jung-jae, Choi Min-sik, Hwang Jung-min, Park Sung-woong
Genre Thriller
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Lee Ja-Sung is an undercover cop who has spent the past eight years infiltrating the country’s largest corporate crime syndicate. But when the boss of the corporate gang dies and his police chief refuses to pull him out, Lee finds his loyalties tested. Trust no one in this ruthless world of cops and robbers.
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New World dishes out enough of the genre’s oldest pleasures to make it worthwhile.
Los Angeles Times by Gary Goldstein
Loyalties are tested, futures are reconsidered and the body count climbs in the effective action import New World.
The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
New World is both less bloody and more thoughtful than most of its genre, the shifting-alliances plot becoming more engrossing as it progresses.
The Playlist by Kevin Jagernauth
While it hardly reinvents the genre, it’s smart, sharp entertainment that meets expectations dead on, and provides a nifty little story told with just enough spark to make the familiar feel fresh.
Park's direction is sleek and assured, but lacking the dynamism that might help energize a film that—its title notwithstanding—comes off as dully old-school.
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