Shiri
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →North Korea's 8th Special Forces hijack a shipment of CTX, a potent new liquid explosive, and threatens South Korea as part of a plot to re-unify the two countries. Ryu and Lee, special agents of O.P., South Korea's secret intelligence service, attempt to track down the terrorists and find the CTX. Meanwhile Hee, the 8th's ultra-bad female sniper, resurfaces to wreak havoc and haunt Ryu.
Our read · Shiri (1999) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · thriller · spy entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Shiri
What watching it is actually like.
“You want explosive Korean spy thrills with romance and geopolitical stakes.”
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The reading.
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