Beasts Clawing at Straws

2020 [KOREAN]

Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

24
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 50% · 34 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 50% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.0/10 10 6193 6.2K

based on novel or book money bag of money loan shark

Plot summary

A struggling restaurant owner, caring for his sick mom, finds a bag of cash in a sauna locker, while a customs officer gets into trouble when his girlfriend runs off with money he borrowed from a loan shark.

Director

Kim Yong-Hoon Photo
Kim Yong-Hoon

Top cast

Kyung Jin Photo
Kyung Jin as Young-Seon
Yuh-Jung Youn Photo
Yuh-Jung Youn as Soon-Ja
Shim So-Young Photo
Shim So-Young as Flower shop owner
Do-yeon Jeon Photo
Do-yeon Jeon as Yeon-Hee
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
1000.07 MB
1280*534
Korean 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 48 min
Seeds 2
2.01 GB
1920*800
Korean 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 48 min
Seeds 7

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by thalassafischer 7 / 10

A Variation on Gangster Movies I've Seen Before

I know this is a sub-genre that some people love and they would split hairs, calling me a killjoy, but to me this is like...Layer Cake? 8 Heads in a Duffle Bag? There are also some South Korean films from about twenty years ago with similar themes, though admittedly the script is original in its character development and fine details. I don't know how people survived all of those head injuries, especially the old grandma. It's a dark comedy, not meant to be realistic, and apparently based upon a novel. The main protagonist any normal person would root for is a clerk at a jjimjilbang, a real working class victim of the system, so I can gladly put this well-written film into the cannon of SK flicks that defend the downtrodden poor.
Reviewed by phd_travel 9 / 10

Clever show. Concentrate for the first half things come together!

A bag of money is the center of this crime story. Concentrate on the different characters at first, even if you don't get the connection. It will come together later. And everything does come together in a clever way. There is violence but not as bad as Quentin or Coen Bros. Jung Woo Sung is the big star here and he is good. But it is an ensemble cast the pulls this crime story with a hint of dark comedy together.
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