Name: The Age of Shadows
Genre: Action, Thriller
Released: 2016-09-07
Duration: 2 h 20 min
Rating: 3.5
Cast: Song Kang-ho, Gong Yoo, Han Ji-min, Shingo Tsurumi, Um Tae-goo

The Age of Shadows — Infiltrate and deceive.

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Set in the late 1920s, The Age of Shadows follows the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters trying to bring in explosives from Shanghai to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and Japanese agents trying to stop them.

Countries: KR

Languages: Japanese, Mandarin, English, Korean

Runtime: 2hrs 20min

Status: Released

Release date: 2016-09-07

Release format: Streaming — Jul 28, 2017

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@manny-calavera 8 years ago

Another great movie by the legendary Kim Jee-Woon. While a tad too longer, the best sequence which would remain is the train sequence which is one of the masterpieces of suspense.

@mellowb 8 years ago

It's absolutely mindboggling again and again what the Korean's are able to do with a puny budget, like the $9 Million for this one. The set and costume design, production values in general and everything were so spot on as usual, amazing!

Tho as Manny said, the movie was maybe a tad too long but besides that another brilliant piece in Kim Jee-Woon's book of which I've seen them all. Fantastic cast and better than 2015's "Assassination" which was similar in setting.
Well worth your time!

@saint-pauly 5 years ago

Korean epic _The Age of Shadows_ has everything and nothing it needs to excellent: espionnage, action, and not the slightest whiff of romance.

It stumbles to catch its footing in the over-long first act (and you have to read a lot of subtitles to grasp the basic intrigue of the film), but it really hits its stride in the second with suspense, on-point directing and top notch acting (the ensemble cast includes Song Kang-ho (_Parasite_, _The Host_, _Memories of a Murder_, _Snowpiercer_...)).

Like every truly great film, _The Age of Shadows_ demands interest, but pays off big time for the attention you pay it.

@schmenky 8 years ago

2 / 2 directing & technical aspect
2 / 2 story
1 / 1 acting
0 / 1 pacing
1 / 1 dialogue
1 / 1 living up to its genre
0 / 1 originality
0 / 1 lasting ability to make you think
0.......misc enjoyment point (+/-)

7 out of 10

Act II on the train is a masterpiece.
Kang-ho Song is effing awesome in EVERYTHING he's in. Especially anything directed by Chan-wook Park.
If you liked this, check out The Good, the Bad, and the Weird. Same director, Jee-woon Kim, and Kang-ho is hilarious in it.

@drtfx7 4 years ago

An exquisite array of tension-building sequences and cathartic ultra-violent showdowns riding at a notch below its competence due to the overlong, aimless narrative. The lack of direction shows in an otherwise deft screenplay with great performance and score.

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