TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

MovieGuy01 I have just watched the Korean horror film The Red Shoes, and i thought that it was not too bad, but i have seen much better Asian horror films. It is about a woman called Sun-jae, whose husband is unfaithful and cheats on her with a lover, Sun-jae moves to a cheap apartment at Goksung Station, with her daughter Han Tae-soo. While she is travelling back home in the subway, Sun-jae finds a pair of pink shoes and brings them home with her. Her daughter Han Tae-soo starts to become fascinated by the shoes, that her mother has bought. but they bring greed and jealousy to whoever sees them, Sun-jae starts to have visions and nightmares about ghosts and blood. When her friend Kim-mi Hee steals the shoes, she has an accident and dies. She finds out that the of pink shoes that she found on a subway platform seems to bring a curse on whoever wears them. And rips them from the owners feet and taking the owners feet with them. Sun-jae tries to find out what is causing the curse to happen. i found this horror film to be not to bad to watch 4/10

slayrrr666 "The Red Shoes" is an entertaining and definitely fun Asian ghost film.**SPOILERS**Moving into a new apartment, Sun-jae, (Kim Hye-soo) and her daughter Tae-su, (Park Yeon-ah) try to move on with their lives following her painful divorce. When she suffers a series of personal tragedies, she manages to find a pair of red shoes and takes them home, experiencing a slight reversal of fortune while having them. Using them, she manages to meet In-cheol, (Kim Sung-su) who is helping her start over with her new career, but a vicious jealous streak emerges with everyone who she feels is attempting to steal away the shoes. When it soon becomes apparent that some outside force is killing off those who are involved with her, she realizes the deadly curse attached to them and tries to find a way of keeping her loved ones from being part of the tragedies.The Good News: This was an enjoyable and entertaining ghost entry. One of the best parts is that, like most of the normal Asian ghost films, this one is simply filled with really striking visuals during the course of the film. Some, including the opening attack where a woman is stalked through a gigantic walkway inside a train station, only to be confronted by a supernatural force that moves over the ground, into her shoes and then begins screaming, pulling back to reveal that the amount of skin covered by the floating supernatural force has been bloodily removed, as well as other scenes are just outstanding, and quite suspenseful at times. Another brilliant scene occurs on the roof of the hospital, where, while discussing what's happening, they look up to notice the picture of the person haunting them and are then doused in blood raining down like snowflake, which is made apparent to them after-the-fact. Other big scenes, such as the nightmare in the bedroom where the ceiling opens up and pulls her into it, then rains down gallons-upon-gallons of blood on her or the simply chilling twist-ending that is extremely well-thought-out and makes for some fun times, are some more great examples. Perhaps, though, one of the best features here is the rather great amount of time spent on making the shoes to be something worthwhile, due to the obsessive behavior exhibited just to own them. The opening scene again shows this trait, as does the attitude and behavior of the daughter once she takes them home, as well as the different ways people react when they're on, from the murdered friend to passerby on the street and more, the film does a great job at building up a solid mystery as to what the shoes will drive a person to do. That they manage to keep reappearing, despite being visibly thrown away on numerous occasions, shows the power they have, and that is a simply effective tool no matter what. This one also manages to have an effective back-story in here that spells out the convoluted but still understandable premise with a great deal of clarity, which is a strong plus when considering these kinds of films but is also quite fun as well with a fantastic duel murder thrown in. That brings up the last plus, the rather strong gore on display. There's the aforementioned legs being lopped off, an eyeball cut out, a shoe heel stabbed in the eye, a broken glass shard slicing the legs off and two victims, at once, being hung-up on a supernaturally-powered noose. These here are what make the film work.The Bad News: There wasn't much wrong with this one. A pretty big flaw in here is the simply large amount of time spent on the adultery angle. There's a rather lengthy scene early on of her running around town and then stumbling upon the act, which is fine, but the fact that this plot point continues to become relevant in the middle of the film is quite troublesome. It had already been dealt with beforehand with the various people all commentating on the differences she had experienced since moving on, yet to keep bringing it up when there's very little cause to do so is simply weird and confusing. Another problematic point is the attitude of the daughter, who's constant whining and complaining about the shoes got tiresome. They're screaming matches, one of which turns into a brawl, to regain custody of the shoes is certainly not that fun due to the annoying habit of the daughter, and was certainly a case where discipline was needed. The last flaw is the slow middle part, where the story is given some legs and as such there isn't much in the way of excitement during these scenes, although that's to be expected in an Asian ghost film, and isn't detrimental. These here are the film's problems.The Final Verdict: A strong entry in the genre, not entirely without flaws but still with such impressive positive points to hold the bad-parts down. Strongly recommended for fans of these films or of Asian cinema in general, as well as the curious, while the only ones who won't take to it are non-Asian fans.Rated R: Graphic Violence and Language

dschmeding The trailer to this Korean movie looked promising and honestly when the movie started I was thrilled. Two girls fight over a pair of shoes in a subway where they found the abandoned shoes. One gets left behind, the other walks through endless corridors wearing her new shoes with pride but you know something is wrong when she hears footsteps around her. Cinematography is awesome with washed out colors, blurry areas making you focus on certain elements and the pink shoes over-saturated and shining. Awesome... when the girl wakes up to find the shoes and feet gone screaming in a puddle of blood I thought this will be a good one for sure. But it wasn't. "The red shoes" is a totally incoherent mess of story telling, mixing several ideas of Asian ghost movies like dark-haired girls, bloody eyes, creepy elevator rides and endless creepy corridors in for the horror audience. Otherwise the movie is slow, way too long and mixing loads of element in a fashion that to me made absolutely no sense in the end. Basically the movie continues with a woman and her daughter Tae-Soo (I will never forget that name because her mother screams and cries her name like a million times throughout this movie which gets really annoying after a while) who separate from their father who has an affair. They move into a new apartment to live on their own, the woman finds the pink shoes on a subway ride and things start to get strange including many flashbacks melting the plot together with the opening. From here on its all about her and her daughter, both beginning to be obsessed with the shoes, an architect who builds her new bureau and gets into her life and the resulting love story. People die, flashbacks show to a back story about a murder involving the shoes and vengeful ghosts. There are both creepy and beautiful moments, especially on the visual side but the mix of flashbacks gets pretty torn up and in the end you think they didn't want to end the movie because you get like three ends piled upon another. The movie is pretty hard to understand and I think its because the script is a mess.. many things happen without explanation (the birds, the blood dripping from sky and ceiling several times, the idiotic newspaper ad and internet story...). If the story was that complex and psychological they sure wouldn't end the movie with pink shoes standing somewhere and another woman reaching to take them. I would have expected such ending in any stupid slashed movie but not in this one. "The red shoes" is loosely based on the Andersen story mixing in some typical Asian ghost elements, love story and psychological elements. To me it totally fails except for some nice scares. A real big let down after such a strong beginning and another proof that sometimes less is way more.

Rusty Cat From the very start, where the credits literally drip blood, you can pretty much tell what you're in for. Well, at least you think you can. It's an excellent opening sequence. Neo-classic "Phantom of the Opera" organ music plays over images of the gleaming chrome, stone and tile interiors of a modern Korean subway. A girl stands alone on the cavernous platform, then, there they are – a pair of pink shoes. -Huh? Pink shoes? That's right, The Red Shoes is all about a pair of cursed pink shoes. So, the girl on the platform picks up the red, er, pink shoes, (these are girl shoes, not high tops, so it's only girls who have to worry, as usual) then tussles with another girl over them shouting "Ma!" again and again. Read more on The Plugg: http://www.theplugg.com/2007/02/05/horror-film-review-the-red-shoes/Hope it's helpful..