Fabricated City (2017)

Director: Kwang-Hyun Park

Starring: Chang-Wook Ji, Eun-kyung Shim, Jae-hong Ahn

After Kwon, an exceptional gamer, is wrongly framed for murder, he along with his allies decides to find the real culprit and prove his innocence.

This is an interesting story about a syndicate framing innocent people for murder and raepe. The visuals are striking and the action scenes are very good. I found all the fighting scenes in the beginning brutal and unpleasant to watch, but the fighting soon paid off, as it made our hero, Kwon Yu (Chang-Wook Ji) a much stronger and more determined character.

However, the film soon becomes technologically advanced and also too complicated. It also feels as if they’re mixing together way too many ideas and genres for everything to blend smoothly. This is a mystery action sci-fi fantasy drama thriller with humor. The climatic chase scene has the best action sequences and could have been thrilling and suspenseful. Instead, it is treated with slapstick humor, rendering the action ineffective and without so much as a hint of suspense. Treated more seriously, this had the potential to be an awesome action thriller. It was still good, but not awesome.

In Korean.