2005 · action · comedy · adventure
Seoul Raiders
Directed by Jingle Ma Choh-Sing1h 38m2005
Agent Lam (Tony Leung) sets out to track a pair of plates used to make fake American dollars. When he discovers the plates, they are conned out of him by enigmatic US Embassy workers Owen (Richie Ren) and JJ (Shu Qi). With the trail now leading to Korea, Lam sets off in hot pursuit. There, amidst the dangerous and glamorous urban landscape of Seoul, Lam finds himself confronting an underworld crime boss known as the Polar Bear, head of the biggest counterfeiting organisation in Asia.
Our read: Seoul Raiders (2005) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded action · comedy · adventure entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured action / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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