though it's marred by way too many film school editing tricks, it's still a gripping little tale
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08/01/08
Undoing (2007)
29 %
Reviews Counted: 14 Fresh: 4 Rotten:10 Average Rating: 4.8/10
Runtime: 90 mins
Synopsis: After a mysterious year-long absence, SAM returns to Los Angeles determined to find redemption for his past. He soon becomes intertwined with his old mentor DON, a retired gangster and VERA, the lover he abandoned. As he tries to balance revenge with reconciliation he is drawn back into the... [More]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Sung Kang, Kelly Hu, Russell Wong, Tom Bower, Jose Zuniga
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1 - 14 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
... full of flashy visual flourishes %u2026 in fact, too full. What at first seems intriguing quickly becomes a problem, complicating an already unclear narrative.
02/07/08
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Los Angeles neo-noir meets multiformat video grit with varying degrees of success.
01/24/08
Undoing isn't a bad film; it's just not anything great or worth recommending.
12/10/07
There are too many plot twists and there's too little character development.
12/05/07
Undoing, by the writer and director Chris Chan Lee, buries a potentially haunting pulp thriller beneath flashy tics.
12/05/07
Top Critic
Despite the fact that its style comes off as somewhat schizophrenic, Undoing is a film of remarkably direct emotions.
12/05/07
[Director Chris Chan] Lee tries to innovate, but he relies on so many tricks -- woozy overexposures, rapid-fire slideshows -- that his movie looks like the product of a teenager playing with the camera on his new MacBook.
12/04/07
The film is too short because the characters just aren't sufficiently developed, but even at a scant 90 minutes, it feels way too long.
11/30/07
[Director] Lee evokes the character of his varied Los Angeles environments, even if the human element feels as if it's been done -- and undone -- before.
11/24/07
Top Critic
A smidgen of originality lies in its being a noir film with Korean characters: others nothing new, but still a watchable gangster pic.
11/23/07
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