2010 · drama · action · thriller
A Better Tomorrow
Directed by Song Hae-sung2h 4m2010
An idealistic policeman must bring down his estranged older brother, now a powerful gangster in a South Korean port city.
Our read: A Better Tomorrow (2010) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · action · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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