I Saw the Devil (2010)
악마를 보았다
Abandon all compassion.
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I Saw the Devil rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic
IMDb7.8/10· 164K votes
Rotten Tomatoes83%
Metacritic67%
TMDb7.8/10· 3K votesWith 83% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.8/10 on IMDb and 67/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been positive.
About I Saw the Devil
Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. Soo-hyeon, a top-secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself.
Cast of I Saw the Devil
Lee Byung-hun
as Kim Soo-hyeon
Choi Min-sik
as Kyung-chul
Jeon Kuk-hwan
as Squad Chief Jang
Cheon Ho-jin
as Section Chief Oh
Oh San-ha
as Joo-yeon
Kim Yoon-seo
as Se-yeon
Nam Bo-ra
as Section Chief's Daughter
Lee Jun-hyeok
as NIS Agent
Yoon Chae-yeong
as Nurse Han Song-i
Choi Mu-sung
as Tae-joo
Kim In-seo
as Se-jung
Kim Kap-soo
as Planning Team Deputy Head
I Saw the Devil facts
- Original title
- 악마를 보았다
- Budget
- $6M
- Box office
- $13M
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Audience opinions
What the audience liked
- •Director crafts relentlessly brutal revenge narrative with intensity
- •Awestruck cinematography renders violence with unsettling artistic clarity
- •Grim worldview examines psychological cost of vengeance unflinchingly
What the audience disliked
- •Excessive brutality pushes beyond visceral into emotionally numbing territory
- •Blunt approach to shocking content occasionally overshadows character nuance
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