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Nowhere to Hide

They will find you.

1999 · 1h 48m · R Action, Crime, Thriller
Directed by Lee Myung-se

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Overview

Detective Woo is on the trail of the mysterious gangster Sungmin, a master of disguise who always manages to elude his pursuers. Eventually, the cop tracks down and confronts the master-criminal in the suburbs of a coal-mining town.

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Rotten

This is flash in the service of nothing, the proverbial sow's ear doing an indifferent imitation of a silk purse.

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh

The film often churns with the pleasure that visual stimulation can provide and more affection for the bang-bang techniques than you're likely to see in the movies of music-video directors simply making the jump to the big screen.

Elvis Mitchell, New York Times
Fresh

Reveals that in Lee Myung-Se Korea has a filmmaker with enough razzle-dazzle and visceral appeal to rival Hong Kong's -- and Hollywood's -- John Woo.

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Fresh

Lee can't tell a story to save his life, but he's something of a visual magician, laying out glittering piles of goodies that you instinctively want to follow.

Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
Rotten

Nowhere to Hide may not be devoid of substance, but beneath the virtuoso finish it's rotten to the core.

Steve Erickson, Chicago Reader

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