This film is about assassins who kill people at will by stage-managing accidents. It’s a concept film that strives to make this unbelievable plot credible and it does manage it to some extent
Still from The Plot
Film: The Plot (Seolgyeja/Korean)
Cast: Gang Dong-won, Lee Hyun-wook, Lee Mi-sook, Tang Jun-sang, Jung Eun-chae, Kim Shin-rok, Lee Moo-saeng
Director: Lee Yo-sup
Rating: 2/5
Runtime: 100 min
15 years after Hong Kong director Soi Cheang Pou-soi’s 2009 thriller ‘Accident’ hit the screens, comes this impostor copy from South Korea that sets to rework that film’s simple design into one so complicated that it becomes nonviable.
This film is about assassins who kill people at will by stage-managing accidents. It’s a concept film that strives to make this unbelievable plot credible and it does manage it to some extent. Once the thinking brain gets involved though, everything turns to dust. It’s a near impossible construct to orchestrate and solid editing, sound effects and cinematography are not nearly enough to lend conviction to a plot that has to adapt to fast-changing scenarios to be convincing. This film may not be credible but it is game, if at all.
Yeong-il (Gang Dong-won) and his team consisting of Wol-cheon (Lee Hyun-wook), Jackie (Lee Mi-sook) and Jeom-man (Tang Jun-sang) are working as contract killers who design their kill to resemble accidents. Still reeling from the death of a teammate (Lee Jong-suk) they get roped in for another kill - of a prominent political figure standing for the post of Attorney General(Kim Hong-pa), whose daughter Joo Young-seon (Jung Eun-chae) wants him sidelined permanently. The situation is tricky because of the high-profile nature of their target.
They gamely take on the assignment despite the mysterious, similar, Sweeper gang on their trail. Things get further complicated when Detective Yang (Kim Shin-rok ) starts to look closely into the trail of accidents. The appearance of insurance broker Lee Chi-hyeon (Lee Moo-saeng) also sets alarm bells ringing.
The premise of the movie was pretty intriguing and might have worked well with a breathless pace and assured helming. The narrative here doesn’t adhere to those advantages. It wanders into dialogue-heavy sequences at intermittent intervals and the orchestration of the accidents doesn’t play out convincingly.
The cast do their bit to look serious and interested. Gang Dong-won, Lee Hyun-wook, Lee Dong-hwi, Lee Jong-suk as former member of Yeong-il's team referred to as Odd Eye, are all competent but their efforts don’t bear any fruit. This movie written and directed by Lee Yo-sup, his second feature effort, with more tweaks and twists than the original, fails to make an unconventional plot look convincing.
This remake has an inconsistent pace and rather loose twisty script. There’s a bit of excited anticipation to start with but as the movie plays out it becomes more and more difficult to sustain interest. At 99 minutes, the runtime could have been a positive but the scatterbrained narrative fails to hold your attention even in that short duration.
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