BelSports
This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
Jenna Walter
The film may be flawed, but its message is not.
Kamila Bell
This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
Guy
NOWHERE TO HIDE was one of the first Korean films to make it to the West -- and it's a hell of a film. The plot - about a team of cops hunting an assassin - is utterly conventional but only serves to disguise how wild the film really is. Starting off in scratchy b&w - every frame a burst of aggression - before jumping into a mellow rain of colour as autumn leaves fall amid the pouring rain as the assassin strikes. It's nuts, but in a good way. Every ten minutes, just when you think it has settled down, the film will find something unexpected to do. It helps that the cops are demented - maybe ROK cops are? - and consider hanging a suspect upside down and swinging him backwards and forwards an acceptable way to get information. This isn't a film to watch for the story, but for the sheer excitement of its experimentation.
josh-hall
Nowhere to hide has to be one of the most perfectly made cop/villain thrillers i have ever seen. The movie has such a a great, yet tense feel to it and is so determined to blow the audiences minds away. The groundbreaking camera-work, beautiful cinematography, tense and violent action (featuring some of the coolest fight scenes i have ever seen) and a to die for soundtrack make this film in my opinion one of the greatest cop thrillers that has been made today. Laying right up there with 'Heat' and 'Infernal Affairs'. This film i think is not only a must see for Asian extreme fans, but for any one a fan of thrillers. 9 out of 10.
zimlich
"Nowhere To Hide" is absolutely one of the most visually stunning movies I've ever seen. Every scene is a cinematographic masterpiece. Myung-se Lee is a master of effectively using "particle storms" ... falling leaves, rain, snow, flowing sheets. Iparticularly like the ways he use contrast, high and low. While Lee uses high contrast, black & white scenes and low contrast, grainy shots, I like the contrast between scenes. I like the high contrast between innocent scene (falling leaves and the little girl hopping down the stairs) and violent scene that follows (hard rain and murder on the very same stairs). He effectively use low contrast between the good guys and the bad guys. Detective Woo's father told him, "If you don't want to become a gangster, you need to become a cop. This is a MUST SEE movie.
Richard Brunton
The entire first half of this film seems to be far too over produced. Edits are fast and out of place, stylish cuts are made and leaps from black and white to colour, from moving to stills. It's just all too much, without enough content. The characters are given a light glossing over and there's no depth to them, you don't care for anyone, and indeed end up hating everyone, except for a slight liking for the bad guy who at least looks cool. Much of the film tries to leap between serious and comic for no apparent reason. One moment a fight scene will be moody and cool, the next there's a waltz and the characters are dancing. This just seems to be an exercise in creating an MTV film…cool and shallow, and it fails on the first point. I almost switched off during this, and I have to say I hardly ever do that, I can always find something good in a movie…not this one.
