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The Berlin File

2013

Ryoo Seung-wan

Ha Jung-woo, Jun Ji-hyun, Werner Daehn, Ryu Seung-beom ...

5.9

1,388

Thriller. Action A North Korean agent in Berlin is betrayed and cut loose in the midst of a financial espionage intrigue. Together with his wife, a translator at the North Korean embassy in Berlin, they try to escape being purged, as North and South Korean operatives relentlessly pursue them.

	Media	Author	Review
		Linda Barnard Toronto Star	"'The Berlin File' benefits from gritty surroundings that add a cold war realism to this otherwise confusing tale of conflicted loyalties and secret agendas (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Maggie Lee Variety	"'The Berlin File' boasts knockout action setpieces that provide an impressive big-budget showcase for Ryoo Seung-wan's technical smarts”
		Elizabeth Weitzman New York Daily News	"The story feels fairly perfunctory (...) but the well-connected leads do their best to ground it. (...) The intense action scenes consistently deliver some solid genre jolts (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)”
		Nicolas Rapold The New York Times	"As soon as 'The Berlin File' takes flight with its exhilarating action set pieces, memories of any muddles evaporate amid the tension and vivid engagement with settings, from courtyards to fields."
		David Fear Time Out	"Everything here, except the action scenes, [feels] sluggish and rote (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Mark Olsen Los Angeles Times	"There is something sharp, exciting and more original tucked within 'The Berlin File' - and it is in moments a sleek, crackling film - but it all feels somehow misshapen."
		The Review Geek	"A convoluted plot with a humanistic angle (...) Interestingly, the villain is not the North Korean Government that some anti-war movies try to show, but an individual officer in the regime"
		Scott Foundas Village Voice	"[A] formulaic but solid Cold War-style spy thriller."
		Rob Humanick Slant	"A sporadically entertaining, modestly ambitious shoot 'em up that frequently succumbs to spelling out its subtext (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"

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