Reviewed By-Paul Cooke
Director : Sung-Hong Kim
Scripted : Hye-young Yeo
Starring : Joong-Hoon Park , Sang Mi Chu , Ju-hyuk Kim ,
Ju-bong Ji , Chan-young Lee & Hong-il Choi

When Jung-Hyun returns home to his young wife Yoon-hee , with the good news of a new working contract that will improve their lives , the couple decide to have a double celebration as it is also a year since they married but their dreams soon turn into a nightmare.

Whilst traveling to the beach front resort of Sokcho a car accident obligates Jung-Hyun to accept the request of a baneful man to journey with them to the same destination. The joyous mood of the harmonious couple is jolted when the perturbed passenger starts to play mind games and with chilling tone delivers the line , ‘ You two answer me a question ... how much longer do you want to live !? ’. With Joong-Hoon Park playing the disturbed antagonist Em he breaks from tradition from his good guy image of Korean cinema in deranged fashion , as with purposeful intent he invades the sanctity of the protagonists challenging Jung-Hyun to kill him before he kills them.

The prevalent reworking of , ‘ The Hitcher ’ , is underlined with unashamed plagiarism as when Jung-Hyum wakes up in a police station , after Em allows him to beat him up , he discovers the butchered body of the duty officer and the film roller coasters into a fight for survival against an assiduous opponent outside of the laws of normality.

As the fast paced thriller plays out the surmounting plight becomes violently oppressive , along the lines of a Category III player , as we discover that the nihilistic Em has a traumatic past that has left him with an overriding threshold for pain that with equal measure vicariously allows him to serve up torture with unremittent relish.

When Em is disturbed by the occupant of a veterinarian clinic he beats him into submission before dousing the poor guy with gasoline to then set fire to him in horrific fashion as he goes Woof like the dogs he cares for. Throats are slit in blood gushing close up and when the hapless Jung-Hyun has his fingers individually broken in ear splitting Dolby 5.1 clarity not once but twice you will be left feeling drained in genuine disbelief at the amount of duress being administered.

A Spielberg , ‘ Duel ’, like truck demolition of a small market place stands out as an action highlight amidst the tumultuous bodily carnage which merely acts as the penultimate prelude to the bloody and brutal finale.

The unbelievably savage ending takes place in a hospital as the irony of a recognizable haven for saving life is invaded with total abandonment , concluding with a cataclysmic and gut wrenching revelation behind the meaning of the films title. Such an example of in your face nefarious miscreancy may never see the light of day in an uncensored form outside of this original Korean release , so if the opportunity presents itself do not say no to , ‘ Say Yes ’.

Release : Cinema Service
Coding : NTSC Region 3
Sound : Dolby Digital 5.1
Extras : Making Of Film / Interview / Trailer / English Subtitles /
Anamorphic 16:9 Widescreen 1:85:1 Format