Rotten
New World tries to expand the genre with nods to The Godfather but can't escape the over-the-top acting, expansive violence and overdone story typical of Seoul-made crime dramas.
Linda Barnard, Toronto Star
New World
Three Men. Three Ways. To A Different World.
2013 · 2h 14m · Not Rated
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Park Hoon-jung
Overview
An undercover cop has his loyalties tested when the boss of the corporate gang he's spent years infiltrating dies.
Director and cast
- Park Hoon-jung Director
- Lee Jung-jae as 이자성 (Lee Ja-sung)
- Choi Min-sik as 강과장 (Section chief Kang Hyung-chul)
- Hwang Jung-min as Jung Chung
- Park Sung-woong as Lee Joong-gu
- Song Ji-hyo as Shin-woo
- Kim Yoon-sung as Seok-moo
- Na Kwang-hoon as Yang Moon-seok
- Park Seo-yeon Cast
- Choi Il-hwa Cast
- Park In-Soo Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
63%
Tomatometer
Fresh
"New World" is both less bloody and more thoughtful than most of its genre, the shifting-alliances plot becoming more engrossing as it progresses.
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Fresh
No one in American movies has made a crime opera this good in years.
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com
Fresh
Writer-director Hoon-jung Park tells this twisty story of internecine warfare within a Korean corporate crime syndicate with patience, elegance and no small amount of bloodshed.
Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
Like many of his SK-action peers, director Park Hoon-jung has a knack for staging violent set pieces but comes up lacking in terms of character development, narrative clarity, etc.
David Fear, Time Out New York
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