Going in with very few ideas of what I was about to see, I was startled and thrilled at the tenacious audacity on display from the opening scene all the way until the final frames. He wants to stalk his prey, and exact his revenge slowly and increasingly more painfully. He beats him pretty badly, but instead of killing him, he leaves him alive. He quickly finds the culprit, Kyung-chul (Min-sik Choi). With the help of his father-in-law, he sets out on a revenge plot to find the man who did it. After finding out his fiancée has been brutally murdered, secret agent Dae-hoon (Byung-hun Lee) is at a loss. I had heard the movie was pretty graphic, but I never expected that it would push any boundaries. These were the kinds of things they told the audience at the world premiere screening of the Uncut Version of I Saw the Devil at the Toronto International Film Festival last week. Censors claimed it was offensive to human dignity. This movie is not for the squeamish, or the faint of heart.
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