The Thieves (2012)

The thieves


This movie, as the title itself, is stealing, not only to other people but also stealing to each of other, as thieves too.

It's like an Ocean Eleven movie, same as high end group of thieves and planning to steal a highly valuable item and make profit out of it. THe only difference is that, the American movie really share the prize unlike in this movie.

What I like about this movie is how amazing is the fight scene on air using rappel rope, I suddenly remember myself doing hanging on the air doing lizard. It is somewhat adrenaline rush.

But let's not compare the actions and the special effects of hollywood to Korean so to be fair, this is a good movie.

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I went into this movie lowkey expecting a great action/heist movie type of thing with adrenaline and stuff. And in all honesty, it did not disappoint! It had some great action sequences, I loved the plot a lot, the whole trying to steal in a casino, just had me on edge all the time. Plus, their acting was amazing! (I would totally watch this purely because of SooHyun lmao) but besides that SPOILER {one thing that had me disappointed was that Yenicall never acknowledges Zampano when this man did legit anything for her like girl, at the very least I would have liked a kiss :/}

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This movie. Where do I start?
While the main synopsis may remind you a bit of Ocean's Eleven, they're not so similar after all.

This movie is about two group of thieves that join forces to rob a diamond. We have several backstories about their relationships, about the betrayal, about not knowing who you can trust even if they're your closest friend.

But most of all. This movie is FUN. The action scenes, I have to give kudos to the director, I've seen a lot of action movies and I've never seen some of the stuff they do in this movie.
The main cast, all well known and really good actors. I was really surprised by Jun Ji Hyun, her character was probably my favorite.

Anyway, if you're looking for an action packed movie with an amazing cast, watch this one. You will be entertained for a good two hours.

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Unresolved Fates

The movie had some great action scenes, a clever heist plot, and a talented cast, but the ending just didn’t work for me. It felt weird and unsatisfying, lacking the resolution I expected. The unresolved fates of characters like Zampano, Yenicall, and Macao Park left me with too many questions and loose ends. I wanted more closure, especially after all the twists and betrayals that kept the story so gripping. While the buildup was exciting and filled with tension, the ending felt chaotic, rushed, and incomplete, which kind of ruined the overall experience for me. It left me wondering what could have been.

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Apparently I'm on an unplanned Jun Ji-hyun watching streak. Gonna retroactively make it a planned one though, expect a few more logs in the coming day!

It's like Ocean's Eleven cranked up to… well, eleven (...I'll see myself out)

The double-crossing in this movie is something. They live and breathe to one-up each other.

Why is it so Kim Soo-hyun is so expressive here? I dare say he steals the show for a while. What went wrong in the year between this and My Love From Another Star? (He was easily the worst part of that). Who told him that playing an expressionless/emotionless lead was the way to go? His agency? The director? Himself? Not sure. I think it was a terrible idea. However, seeing as he is today's best paid actor in Korea I'm probably wrong. Still think it was a terrible idea lmao

I enjoyed the stacked cast and the way they weaved Hong Kong into the storyline, including the addition of the likes of Simon Yam. The action is filmed well (though the bad guys' clips seemingly have hundreds of bullets in them at a bare minimum), the twists and turns keep on coming, the actors are hella charismatic, the thrills are served one after the other… Entertaining for sure.

But it was missing a little something for me. I guess things fell into place a little bit too much? One convenient occurrence too many I'd say.
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Stunts - 84/100 | Some good stunts sprinkled throughout since we're dealing with heist stuff.

Narrative - 68/100 | Many years ago, being a Westerner, I used to not be able to distinguish between asian languages like Korean, Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, etc. Not anymore so now it was really fun to see them switching languages between all 4 constantly and being able to follow who could understand who in the story, because that's kind of important in this case.

Fight Choreography | No fights.

Enjoyment - 72/100 | Still fun and exciting. I'd put it about on par with Ocean's Eleven overall, quality-wise. Recommended if you like that kind of movie.

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ladri che rubano ai ladri

Bellissimo cast..ladri che rubano a ladri...nessuno si fida di nessuno...conti che devono essere regolati, ha un mix di adrenalina, divertimento e azione che non annoia nonostante lunghezza del movie.

Racconta la storia di un gruppo di ladri sud coreano che si unisce a hong kong insieme a dei compari cinesi, per rubare un diamante da 20 milioni di dollari.

Logicamente ognuno cercherà di tessere le fila per il suo tornaconto personale, ma c'è una storia che unisce tre personaggi, Macao - pepsee e Popie. Loro tre avevano lavorato precedentemente a un altro colpo, avevano robato 8 milioni di lingotti d'oro, ma uno dei tre tradisce il gruppo ....questo porterà a malintesi e rancori profondi, ma che nel movie verranno tutti ben spiegati e ogni cosa tornerà al posto giusto.

Bellissime le scene d'azione per essere un movie di 12 anni fa ben fatto!!

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Jam-packed with amazing plot and casts , more than just a heist film

This film is thrilling, exciting with a lot of stories in one.

The plot of the film is an art on itself. At first you might think this is just a heist film that will amaze you with their cool trickery to perform the heist, deceit and betrayals but it's totally more than that. It actually gave a little bit of almost everything from romance to drama altogether without ruining the mood of the film. The ending is also correlated to how it started so it's one of the best wrap up in the movie that I've seen.

All the actors were actually known as veteran actors and actresses that actually gives more excitement on each and every scene. Although everyone performed well, I specially notice Jun JiHyun on this film. It might be my personal bias because I really watched this film because of her in the first place after I heard that it was filmed while she was pregnant given that most of her scenes here were actually wire scenes. I was amazed by the fact she was doing that. After watching the film, I realized that this films seems to be a premonition of her succeeding dramas like how sassy and goofy her character is on My Love From The Star partnered with Kim SooHyun and also Legend of the Blue Sea from the pool scene.

If you're into films that's more than just what it seems, this is highly recommended.

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oof... What a disappointment.

Truth to be told, this movie failed from the beginning. They committed the worst sin any con artist movie can do - they barely introduced and established the team before they moved to the main plot. With that, I was questioning why they were working together in the first place, since they just did not fit together at all. I was barely able to grasp who was who from the main cast, and then we got yet another team from China, then the mysterious man, then police involved.... and I did not care about anyone. Con movies are as good as the team... and this team was shit.

I'm still not sure what this movie was in terms of genre. It started as a ridiculous, silly comedy, but then it took a dark turn when half way through we said goodbye to so many characters (may I add, the best ones). They tried to bring the comedy back, but it did not work at all. Why try being silly/funny and dark action serious at the same time?
IT. CANNOT. WORK. IN. THAT. FORMAT.

Can we also talk about the action sequences? Was I watching the circus? I was legit waiting for Pennywise to show up and kill everyone (would make for a better movie than this for sure). Why was everyone flying all the time? Why was there proper equipment just lying around?

And that amazingly anticlimactic ending for the "bad guy" that made me question my existence and my reasoning behind me even bothering to watch the movie.

The acting was for sure the best part. The cast did an amazing job portraying these messed up, ridiculous characters, so I was able to enjoy a few scenes here and there.

Overall, do yourself a favor and don't bother watching.

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