Tom's Reviews

I have to say I'm not too sure about this one. Usually when I come out of my dark cave to switch Netflix on I have a pretty clear idea about what it is I'm watching. I don't watch movies often, so when I do I am going to make damn sure I know what I'm spending my time on; I didn't with Svaha: The Sixth Finger . I think ultimately this may be the best way going into it, but may also lead to an unfortunately confusing and perhaps unrewarding experience. Svaha: The Sixth Finger is another Korean thriller-mystery Netflix Original with a bunch of people solving crimes. Only in Svaha: The Sixth Finger the mystery is surrounded by Buddhist culture and mythology to give it that extra boost of originality. And frankly I feel as if that is the films best selling point. This whole film is almost about cults, but is really about religion as a whole and that (for me) is a really interesting scenario for a detective film. But I'm not all that sure that Svaha: The Sixth ...

It's not often I'll watch a film and completely change my opinion half way through, but through masterful direction, great acting and a half decent story with a few twists and turns this film actually became one of my favourite films of this year. Jo Pil-ho: The Dawning Rage is a ridiculous title that I refuse to write out more than once. So, from this point on, I'll refer to it as The Dawning Rage if at all. But, title aside, this film is an interesting one. As always Netflix give you a one or two sentence summary of this two hour film, and it sounded pretty lame. But I feel like Netflix didn't really have any other choice as to describe this film in one or two sentences would be nigh impossible. You see the plot of this film isn't necessarily complicated, and in fact follows the tried and tested South Korean thriller formula pretty well; the thing about this film's narrative is that it's so well told and so detailed that you feel its worth more than a...

I haven't watched a film in a while, in fact the last film I saw was Dot 2 Dot which I gave a scathing review for. I think it left a sour taste in my mouth. But I have been watching TV, and most notably Live staring Kwang-soo Lee. Kwang-soo Lee is quite a versatile actor. In Live he plays a serious policeman who struggles to prove his relevance in the world; in Busted he plays a comedic detective version of himself who's a bit goofy and silly; and in The Sound of Your Heart he plays a hopeless and slightly autistic webtoon artist. But perhaps his best performance yet is as a fish man in the film I'm reviewing today, the naffly named Collective Invention . It is true that I found out about this film by IMDBing Kwang-soo, but I watched it for the fish man. The conceit of this film is that a pretty average lowlife loser, Park Goo (Kwang-soo Lee, Live ), takes an experimental drug that turns him into a fish man. But what we get from there was not quite what I was expectin...