Decision to Leave
Hae-Joon, a seasoned detective, investigates the suspicious death of a man on a mountaintop. Soon, he begins to suspect Seo-rae, the deceased's wife, while being unsettled by his attraction to her.
- Released:
- Runtime: 120 minutes
- Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
- Stars: Tang Wei, Park Hae-il, Lee Jung-hyun, Park Yong-woo, Go Kyung-pyo, Jung Yi-seo, Lee Hak-joo, Jeong Ha-dam, Lee Yong-nyeo, Jung Young-sook, Kim Shin-young, Park Jeong-min, Yoo Teo, Go Min-si, Seo Hyun-woo, Yoo Seung-mok, Kim Do-yeon, Jeong So-ri, Shin An-jin, Cha Seo-won, Joo In-young, Choi Sun-ja, Jin Yong-uk, Choi Dae-hoon, Kim Mi-hwa, Kwak Eun-jin, Ahn Seong-bong, Kim Gook-jin, Kim Sang-hyun
- Director: Park Chan-wook
Comments
- LW-08854 - 13 April 2024
Convulted and over long
A mixed film for me. It's nicely edited and has some interesting camera angles and a sense of humour to it too. It's also very much set in the here and now and doesn't shy away from bringing technology into the film. To me the film felt like a remake of Basic Instinct in which a police officer becomes obsessed with a woman he is also investigating for a possible murder of an ex-partner. Some the film falls into more conventional action cliches like rooftop chases and that Sherlock BBC style of him seeing key details appear in front of him visually. The film though is far too lengthy and it just goes on too long. At one point the story just stops really and nothing much happens for about half an hour, it's unforgivable. The plot also gets very convoluted and by the end I didn't really understand or care about the ending so muddled had it become. A shame because I did enjoy the first half of it much more. - iagodsell - 27 November 2023
Slow to Develop but Worth the Wait
I am unashamedly a sucker for these kind of movies. For a grown man to tear up at B&W movies like Rebecca (right from the opening narrative), Silver Dollar and Biscuit-eater through to the modern foreign films such as My Sassy Girl, Il Mare and Cyborg She when love, often with difficulty, is a theme. I see a parallel here in Decision to Leave; others may not. You have a right to your opinion. It starts off slow but for me developed well and I was absorbed in the story and could not pick the direction it was heading. I thought it was worth the journey; the ending was acceptable but, for a romantic, it was not the one I wanted. Nevertheless a good meaty film for me.
