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May 2, 2017

98 months ago

DVD / Blu-ray / VOD

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DVD
May 2, 2017
98 months ago
Blu-ray
May 2, 2017
98 months ago
VOD
May 2, 2017
98 months ago
Cinema
Sep 23, 2016
105 months ago

The Age of Shadows release date

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The Age of Shadows

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Set in the late 1920s, The Age of Shadows follows the cat-and-mouse...
Set in the late 1920s, The Age of Shadows follows the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters led by Gong’s character, trying to bring in explosives from Shanghai to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and Japanese agents trying to stop them. Song plays a talented Korean-born Japanese police officer who was previously in the independence movement himself and...
Set in the late 1920s, The Age of Shadows follows the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters led by Gong’s character, trying to bring in explosives from Shanghai to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and Japanese agents trying to stop them. Song plays a talented Korean-born Japanese police officer who was previously in the independence movement himself and is thrown into a dilemma between the demands of his reality and the instinct to support a greater cause.
DramaThrillerJee-woon KimYoo GongKang-ho SongJi-min HanHee-soon ParkTae-Goo UmSeo-YoungShin Sung-RokWarner Bros. Pictures
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What the critics say

Based on 9 reviews, The Age of Shadows gets an average review score of 80

A-/A+
theplaylist.net
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Its more that Kim Jee-woon has found in this era and this milieu the perfect inspiration for a blisteringly entertaining and exquisite genre exercise, one that may not be recognised as such only because we we have never expected genre films to be this good.

3112d ago

90/100
variety.com
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Especially exciting is the use of music to ratchet up tension, first noticeable with simple percussion, then later Louis Armstrong’s “When You’re Smiling” and finally, in the climactic scene, a breathtakingly clever use of Ravel’s overused “Bolero” – it’s quite an achievement to make that old war-horse feel fresh.

3112d ago

88/100
washingtonpost.com
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The movie’s visual panache and fog-of-war ambiguity are as universal as the desire to detonate TNT under your enemy’s headquarters.

3112d ago

B+/A+
avclub.com
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The director of I Saw The Devil offers an unpredictable Age Of Shadows.

3112d ago

B/A+
thefilmstage.com
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Overall, production value is high and the urgent, keenly suggestive score deserves a special shout-out. Local superstars Gong and Song make for a dynamic cinematic pairing and should, together with Lee Byung-hun in a limited role, ensure robust box office results.

3112d ago

80/100
villagevoice.com
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You may have seen parts of The Age of Shadows before, but they're rarely this well assembled.

3112d ago

3/4
rogerebert.com
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Although perhaps that’s part of the point. None of these people knew much about each other, or even themselves. “The Age of Shadows” is about a man caught between country and duty; decency and obligation. It is about people in a time in which black and white lost their meaning, and everything blended to the gray of shadow.

3112d ago

70/100
nytimes.com
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The Age of Shadows might tempt another filmmaker to dwell on issues or delve deeper into its characters’ hearts. Yet, for this director, exposition can’t hold a candle to elegantly staged shootouts. And who can blame him. He knows his strengths.

3112d ago

70/100
hollywoodreporter.com
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South Korea’s Kim Jee-woon crafts a fast-moving period actioner set in 1920s Asia.

3112d ago

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