A Hard Day (2016)

Very best movie i ever watch

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

I read a couple reviews where they mention it's also a comedy where you will have good laughs. I can assure you there is absolutely nothing to laugh with in this movie. It's not a comedy and I don't get why people would write such things. But it's certainly not a bad movie. It's a movie full of twists and suspense. A crime thriller that will entertain you from the first till the last second. It deserves a solid seven stars rating and I would even score it a bit higher if it was not for that terrible language that is Korean. I wonder if they think the same about our languages. Well at least that's my point of view about Korean. It just sounds like they are always mad when they speak. It's not the first South-Korean movie I saw and it won't be the last. They make really good movies and I will just get over it that I don't like their language. The cast is also good. Sun-kyun Lee is a good actor as well as the others. I wouldn't read too much about it before watching it so the story won't get spoiled.

"Kkeutkkaji ganda" ("A Hard Day" in English) is the first Kim Seong-hun movie that I've seen. What a shocker. I've heard some about rampant corruption in South Korea, but if this movie is any indication, things can get REALLY ugly. The main character is Ko, a crooked detective who accidentally kills someone while driving drunk. But after he covers up the killing, he finds out that there was more to this man than he realized, and that someone might have seen him.The setting is not identified, as if to say that this could be the sort of thing that happens everywhere in the country. Ko is already the venal type, but once he covers up the manslaughter, he finds himself surrounded by some of the sleaziest elements in society. Almost every scene contains a surprise, especially towards the end. My favorite scenes were in the funeral home, and by the lake. But every scene has something in store.The movie got screened at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival at the Director's Fortnight sidebar. I think that it should've won something. It's one of the cleverest movies that I've seen. Definitely see it.PS: The Korean title translates to "Take It to the End".

I thought some time of giving this an 8 but honestly not all the surprises work and some things feel a little far fetchedHaving said that I should point out that I've seen a lot of movies and there for you might experience non of these things I just talked about.Besides that there is more than enough left for everybody to get some solid entertainment out of this.the build up for this was outstanding because you start out with a detective having a bad day and the more he tries to get a grip on it the more he loses control over the situation.As the movie progresses more characters are added and it's not always clear if they're there to help him or to hurt him.Around half way thru the movie we find out who has been blackmailing him and although it felt odd this actually played out very well.The "bad guy"brings a new dimension to this and he seems so powerful that you really starting to wander who will be left standing when the credits begin to roll.I think I mentioned this before about Korean movies but maybe now I can say it better, they break the formula way of working made in Hollywood and instead of looking real black and white they seem to focus more on the human aspect.I highly recommend this but also South Korean movies because if you've never seen one your really missing out on some great cinematic masterpieces.It's quality over quantity here and you can only praise 'm for that.If you've never seen a South Korean movies this is an excellent one to start with.Trust me...it will only get better.Go see this!

A Hard Day is a very good Korean film. And, if you like violent and occasionally brutal action films, then you might want to give this one a try. However, the film also has two knocks against it--the plot sure sounds an awful lot like I Know What You Did Last Summer and the film really lacks realism when it comes to one character--a guy who seems to be every bit as tough and indestructible as the Terminator...perhaps tougher!When the film begins, Detective Go Geon-soo is having a horrible day. He's late for his mother's funeral and he's rushing about like a madman trying to get there. Unfortunately, when a dog jumps out in front of his car, he swerves and hits a man! The victim is obviously quite dead and Geon-soo makes a very fateful decision. Instead of reporting this accident, he rashly decides to stuff the body in his trunk. Later, at the funeral, he quickly concocts a plan--to stuff the body into the coffin with his mother! Soon, the coffin is buried and Geon-soo can finally relax...he's gotten away with killing a man. Right? Well, no. Soon, he begins receiving phone calls from an unidentified stranger who knows EXACTLY what happened and he demands that Geon-soo get the body back...or else.The most surprising thing I noticed in the film was how the South Korean police were portrayed. Just about all of them are totally corrupt in the film--even more so than Geon-soo (who has been taking bribes as well as his involvement in the hit and run and disposing of the body)! I have no idea how accurate this portrayal is, but it sure makes you think twice about going to visit the country! Another thing that surprised me was that I liked the film. This is a surprise because I generally don't like action films. Normally, such a movie wouldn't interest me...but this one managed to. But, as I mentioned above, it is a bit derivative...though it certainly is not exactly like I Know What You Did Last Summer. The only real deficit I otherwise noticed was the big finale. While it was super-tense and exciting, it completely lacked realism. No one can take that much punishment and STILL be alive...yet one of the characters seems almost immune to anything Geon-soo can throw at him (literally). The bottom line is that the film is super-entertaining provided you don't think too much near this crazy ending.