hollywood lost yellow sea na hong jins compelling new crime thriller teach arnie making films pack realistic punchthese golden times action movie slightly embalmed looking arnold schwarzenegger merrily tweeting bulgarian set expendables 2 star bruce willis announced return fray fifth hard strikes little short termist fun meantime sign good health genre reliant men clearly use cinematically correct parlance got too old shitall stranger freshest action films recent memory risks slipping unnoticed – the yellow sea darkly propulsive south korean crime thriller featuring manner chases gunplay loving scenes glass lavishly shattering released britain week named stretch water lies china north south korea compelling affair – protagonist broken gambler chinese border town yanbian desperation wife escapes seoul agrees smuggled carry mob hit unfolds does series adrenalised setpieces pace hong jins storytelling way flawless rush sequences dizzyingof course thing action movie theres sense quarters noisy boom pleasures exist end spectrum foreign language film fact action fan knows divide bogus basic level subtitles cease issue focus flying bullets stuff blowing film makers outside hollywood knack stylistically raising bar leaving america catch – tradition spanning eisenstein john woo koreas park chan wookthe yellow sea main attractions upcoming london korean film festival week celebration self assured doesnt need stellar catalogues park bong joon ho befits country madly diverse film culture programme runs high school k horror slapstick 16th century detective yarns – cluster superior action thrillers centre nas previous film technically staggering the chaser gets airing big screen – onetime action kid ryoo seung wan retrospective highlight probably recent film unjust sprawling tale police corruption genuine sense ambivalence random head poundingsbut aside facility blood pyrotechnics aspect korean cinema lends action flicks particular heft – connection real world really makes yellow sea tick grounding experience ethnic koreans chinese controlled outposts like yanbian mood semi lawless gloom dramatic ballast chaos later stagestime festivals lineup realities class divide anxiety sadness relationship north arise ultraviolent bedlam course south koreas film makers arent action movies social undercarriage combination signature countrys cinema operatic plotting ice cream swirl unease runs biggest mainstream hits vastly successful 1999 blockbuster shiri centred tension seoul pyongyang bongs loved monster spectacular the host doubled critique presence military south korea west unless expendables 2 finds arnie friends taking banks action happens firmly land make believesouth korea>north class=author>