Chose this to watch last night because of it's overwhelmingly positive reviews and the fact that it was directed by Park Chan-wook (who also directed produced Snowpiercer), and who doesn't like a good South Korean crime mystery?

How could this possibly be a bad film?

I would seriously pay $100 to never have to sit through 2 hours and 18 minutes of that absolute rubbish ever again in my life. This was absolute bollocks, complete horse shit.

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By 55 minutes in I'm so fucking bored and confused and seriously considering just turning it off and not even finishing it, but they haven't even started unravelling the mystery yet or who actually killed the husband. They're seriously spending like a third of the film with the detective and the wife/murder suspect just flirting with each other and going on stupid dates even though they clearly have no chemistry whatsoever and EVEN IF THEY DID this would still be so fucking boring what the fuck was the director thinking they could have established that in one or MAYBE two scenes.

Oh ok, so we've finally determined that the wife did the murder and we're a little over halfway through the film (NO FUCKING SHIT, of COURSE she was, we could establish this just from watching the trailer you numbskulls), and then they decide to just up and move to another city in South Korea without actually indicating this and we have to guess it based on the dialogue. And then they just repeat the plot of the first half of the movie OVER AGAIN; wow do you think the wife was the murderer AGAIN gee I don't know guess I'll just wait here on the edge of my seat for another fucking HOUR!.

There are so many things in this film that just happen out of nowhere, scene cuts that make no sense, plot points that come out of nowhere, long ass scenes that serve no purpose other than to establish points that had already been established like 35 fucking minutes ago.

In over two hours they accomplished no character development whatsoever, and the "dRaMaTiC eNdInG" of the film MADE NO FUCKING SENSE WHY WOULD SHE DO THAT WHAT THE FUCK, SERIOUSLY WHAT THE FUCK, AND IT WASN'T POETIC OR ANYTHING IT WAS JUST A SENSELESS DEATH AND WHAT WAS THE MOTIVATION FOR HER JUST OFFING HERSELF? WHY? FUCKING WHY????

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This film was dog shit wrapped in cat shit. I would recommend it to nobody. This was two hours and eighteen minutes of my life that I will never get back. I would say that I have nothing but utter contempt for this film, but it was so devoid of any meaningful content that I cannot even say that.