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  Review by YI JIAN ★★★★★ 43

  She saw the devil on a snowy night. He had no horns, just a hoodie. No pitchfork, but a hammer. There were blood instead of flames, splattered all over the windshield, her seat, her scalp, her hair.

  They saw the devil on a busy night. He had no body, nor hands and legs. He showed up as a female, standing directly under the spotlight, tugged around by the water, hair dancing like seaweed.

  I saw the devil, he came in various forms. Sometime's it's an ear, sometime's a ring. Sometimes human, with maniac eyes and a huge disgusting grin.

  I saw the devil, the devil himself. He's laughing and he's not sorry. I'm not afraid, only angry. I don't dance…

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  Review by iana ★★★½ 5

  please send me your favourite cute animal videos and a number for a therapist

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  Review by Griffin ★★★★½ 11

  Just two guys who love edging

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  Review by Todd Gaines ★★★★★ 55

  Storm Shadow's fiancé is brutally murdered and he goes all-out Oldboy in order to find the Oldboy responsible for her death. The worst fuckin time to have a flat tire. Hammer time. Waking up in a body bag. Floating head. Vengeance for the one you love. Chokin' your chicken and then getting choked the fuck out. Broken balls. Hack a hitchhiker. A bloody engagement ring. A mano-a-mano greenhouse confrontation. The ultimate tracking device. The most fuckin ironic taxi ride ever. Dinner with Dr. Lecter's step-son. Sneaking up on a mutha fucka all ninja like. A candy stripe nurse striptease. Blow-job interruptus. A permanent smiley face. The worst possible moment to have to shit. The phone call that changes everything. A…

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  Review by Branson Reese 1

  I would probably not do a lot of this stuff.

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  Review by matt lynch ★★½ 13

  Second pass because I want to get behind something this ferocious and technically adept but it's so repetitive, so criminally long and so fatally shallow that I have to stick to my guns and call it a failure. While my lizard brain thrills to the astounding violence and virtuoso camerabatics this is still a pretty tired consumed-by-revenge jam, so narratively convoluted and hypocritical in its rote moralizing that I'm wondering if it isn't just a big joke, that Kim is just making a comedy of errors that happens to be about a couple of raging psychopaths. I don't mind that this is a flimsy clothesline for expertly choreographed sadism, I mind that it's 2 1/2 hours long and almost gleefully stupid.

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★★ 2

  Full review will come after a re-watch, but I will tell you this.

  I have never seen a more operatic, beautiful, and frightening film than I Saw the Devil.

  The opening scene = genius.

  The final shot = genius.

  Everything in between?

  You guessed it.

  Genius.

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  Review by kailey ★★ 43

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  spoilers

  so have you heard of this revenge thing and that it may in fact be kinda a bad idea sometimes?

  tired. we've been here before. we will be here again. every creator needs to ask themself if the point is in fact a point worth making even if it is the point. endless, draining cruelty and not much else. not smart enough to be about anything, not empathetic enough to make us care, not creative or fun enough to be a gonzo action flick, not tense enough to be a thriller, not twisty enough to hold our attention, you get my drift?

  exhausted. vigilante movies want to have their cake and eat it too. they want to sternly lecture…

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  Review by Christina ★★★★½ 10

  watched most of this behind the cracks of my fingers like the strong and independent woman i am

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  Review by Reznikov🔥 ★★★★★ 23

  I want to start off by saying that no amount of superlatives could quite explain how much I love this film. Don't get me wrong, A Dirty Carnival is still my favourite South Korean Film but I Saw the Devil is certainly high up on my list.

  I Saw the Devil is a cutting depiction of the effect that committing violence has on men psyche's. Apart from that, it also makes a point about revenge that no other film has quite managed.

  When you are wronged, when someone you love is hurt or taken from you, there is never any amount of eye for an eye that can meet that level of pain.

  Thank you Cinèologist for the recommendation!

  皆さんが元気にやっていることを願っています。気をつけて！♥️

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  Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★½ 11

  My personal favorite "revenge film" of the twenty first century -- possibly even the past few decades and, like, by far too.

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  Review by nathaxnne [hiatus: blast injury] ★★★★★ 30

  I Saw The Devil is a masterpiece of Korean Revenge Cinema, perhaps the masterpiece. It hearkens back to Jacobean Revenge Drama, lit theatrically, mixing daily reality with the highest Grand Guignol, severe and understated while also wildly over the top, I Saw The Devil stretches out to its fullest extent, maximizing itself like a predator confronting another predator in the wild. Never in this movie does revenge seem like the right thing to do or an advisable course of action, even when wholly understandable. Even if your beloved fiance is brutally murdered by a disgusting low-life psychopath. Even if you have mad secret agent skills and tech at your disposal. The message is clear: don't do it. Other people will…