Just another addition to my Korean movie collection. Its a kind of Police Story feature from Korea side. Not to forget it also contains a lot of sentiments and grievance. The Movie is a flashy and competently put-together South Korean take on futuristic sci-fi. It's essentially about a group of lab experiments, led by the biggest and baddest lab experiment of them all, coming out of the wood works in search of their creator, all in the name of revenge. Trying to stop them is tough cop Seok (Seung-woo Kim), who runs an elite police unit made up of tough cookies like May (Seon-a Kim).
The film takes you into the topic of genetic manipulation (something much advanced at the time of release to the movie fans)and human genome stuff). "Yesterday" is a thrilling sci-fi movie, with heavy doses of edge-of-your-seat action and emphasis on the word "thrilling". But because this is a South Korean production, all the characters have as much energy as a rock sitting on the beach. There are critcis who points out there are no emotions on the Cops face but i would praise the director on this front since it takes out once emotions to be an elite cop and that's what is projected in the movie (just check out the stone face of Kurt Russell in the Hollywood film "The Soldier"). One thing which i feel lacks in the movie is a better introduction on the Cops team or a proper back round would have maintained a level set with the audience.On the plus side "Yesterday" is a good-looking picture with slick production values. On the negative side the action is sometimes hard to follow and Min-su Choi ("Libera Me"), as the lead villain, is not very fearsome, even as he's wiping out Seok's team one by one by one. And with Hui-su leading Seok's unit to death en masse, the bad guy manages to rack up a pretty impressive body count.
Nothing less compared to today's Hollywood stuff the movie has the quality cinematography and action. Only thing is the story line is too vague to follow with a secret science project of genetic mutation to get an elite member of emotionless soldiers. Why and how come the project gets cancelled and why the patients or project samples escaped and how come the government didn't trace or wipe out them is all a question mark.
Its a movie still worth watching and hope if some Tamil directors like to remake the movie :-).
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