Rotten
New World tries to expand the genre with nods to The Godfather but can't escape the over-the-top acting, expansive violence and overdone story typical of Seoul-made crime dramas.
Linda Barnard, Toronto Star
New World
Three Men. Three Ways. To A Different World.
2013 · 2h 14m · Not Rated
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Park Hoon-jung
Overview
An undercover cop has his loyalties tested when the boss of the corporate gang he's spent years infiltrating dies.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
63%
Tomatometer
Fresh
"New World" is both less bloody and more thoughtful than most of its genre, the shifting-alliances plot becoming more engrossing as it progresses.
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Fresh
No one in American movies has made a crime opera this good in years.
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com
Fresh
Writer-director Hoon-jung Park tells this twisty story of internecine warfare within a Korean corporate crime syndicate with patience, elegance and no small amount of bloodshed.
Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
Like many of his SK-action peers, director Park Hoon-jung has a knack for staging violent set pieces but comes up lacking in terms of character development, narrative clarity, etc.
David Fear, Time Out New York
More films
Nayakan (1987)
Crime · Drama · Not Rated
Velu Naicker, who witnesses the brutal murder of his father, kills a corrupt policeman and escapes to Mumbai, only to become a gangster.
- Runtime
- 2h 36m
- Director
- Mani Ratnam
- Cast
- Kamal Haasan, Saranya Ponvannan, Karthika
IMDb
8.6
The Singing Detective (2003)
Comedy · Crime · Music · Mystery · R
Tormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective stories through his imagination and hallucinations.
- Runtime
- 1h 49m
- Director
- Keith Gordon
- Cast
- Robert Downey Jr., Robin Wright, Mel Gibson
IMDb
5.4
Rotten Tomatoes
40%
Metacritic
45
The Red Spectacles (1987)
Crime · Mystery · Science Fiction · N/A
Summer 1995. With the arrival of the "Age of Cats", the former Kerberos police unit is now disbanded. However one member remains, a stray dog who returns to his old roost after a three-years exile. This wild dog no longer has a master, but now the "Young Lady of Fate" will guide him on his journey.
- Runtime
- 1h 56m
- Director
- Mamoru Oshii
- Cast
- Shigeru Chiba, Machiko Washio, Hideyuki Tanaka
IMDb
6.5
Lured (1947)
Crime · Mystery · Thriller · Approved
Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she's approached by Harley Temple, a police investigator who believes her friend has been murdered by a serial killer who uses personal ads to find his victims. Temple hatches a plan to catch the killer us...
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Director
- Douglas Sirk
- Cast
- George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn
IMDb
7.0
Rotten Tomatoes
100%
Villain (1971)
Crime · Drama · Thriller · R
In 1970s London, Scotland Yard orchestrates the downfall of mob boss Vic Dakin after he crosses the line by blackmailing Members of Parliament.
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Director
- Michael Tuchner
- Cast
- Richard Burton, Ian McShane, Nigel Davenport
IMDb
6.5
Rotten Tomatoes
67%
Underground (2007)
Action · Not Rated
In the UK suburbs, an underground tournament is set to challenge twelve fighters from different backgrounds to compete for the price of £500,000. They have been handpicked for a no-holds barred competition that will push each fighter to their limit. Each fighter has their own reason for competing, and each will give everything they've ...
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Director
- Chee Keong Cheung
- Cast
- Mark Strange, Nathan Lewis, Joey Ansah
IMDb
4.2
Bodyguard: A New Beginning (2008)
Action · Drama · Thriller · R
Leung is the bodyguard of a Chinese Triad boss, Wong, to whom his loyalty is unrivaled. Living in Hong Kong, Wong requests that his bodyguard travel to the UK to protect a young British woman, whose true identity is known only by Wong himself. Even Wong's son, Yuen, is kept in the dark, which leads to a betrayal that threatens to destr...
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Director
- Chee Keong Cheung
- Cast
- Vincent Sze Cho-Lam, Richard Ng Yiu-Hon, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
IMDb
4.5
Comments
Talk about the film with other members