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Undoing (2007)
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Reviews Counted:14
Fresh:4
Rotten:10
Average Rating:4.8/10
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
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... 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 shadowy world he left behind. A world of impossible desires, loneliness and isolation. Can Sam undo his mistakes before losing all that he came back to save? --© Indican Pictures [More]
Starring: Sung Kang, Kelly Hu, Russell Wong, Tom Bower
Starring: Sung Kang, Kelly Hu, Russell Wong, Tom Bower, Jose Zuniga, Leonardo Nam
Director: Chris Chan Lee
Director: Chris Chan Lee
Producer: Karin Chien, Sung Kang
Composer: Ceiri Torjussen
Studio: Indican Pictures
Reviews for Undoing
though it's marred by way too many film school editing tricks, it's still a gripping little tale
... full of flashy visual flourishes %u2026 in fact, too full. What at first seems intriguing quickly becomes a problem, complicating an already unclear narrative.
Los Angeles neo-noir meets multiformat video grit with varying degrees of success.
Undoing isn't a bad film; it's just not anything great or worth recommending.
There are too many plot twists and there's too little character development.
Undoing, by the writer and director Chris Chan Lee, buries a potentially haunting pulp thriller beneath flashy tics.
Despite the fact that its style comes off as somewhat schizophrenic, Undoing is a film of remarkably direct emotions.
[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.
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.
[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.
A smidgen of originality lies in its being a noir film with Korean characters: others nothing new, but still a watchable gangster pic.
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