“Revolver” Theatrical Poster
Director: Oh Seung-wook
Cast: Jeon Do-Yeon, Ji Chang-wook, Kim Joon-Han, Kim Jong-Soo, Jeong Man-Sik, Jeon Hye-Jin, Lee Jung-Jae, Jung Jae-Young, Ma Woong-Kyu
Running Time: 114 min.
By Paul Bramhall
Revolver marks the third directorial outing for Oh Seung-wook, and while there’s nothing particularly out of the ordinary about a director making their third feature, what makes Seung-wook’s case relatively unique is that it’s taken him the best part of quarter of a century to get there. Debuting in 2000 with the identity swapping gangster flick Kilimanjaro, it’d take 14 years for Seung-wook to make his sophomore feature with 2014’s The Shameless, a movie that I personally consider to be one of the best from the 2010’s. A decade on and Revolver sees Seung-wook reunite with his lead from The Shameless, the legendary Jeon Do-yeon (Beasts Clawing at Straws, Memories of the Sword), for another slice of hard-boiled noir that his style of filmmaking feels synonymous with (even if it is sparsely spread out across 24 years!).
Seung-wook has shown an affinity for taking typically unlikeable characters and making them the leads of his stories, and here is no different, with Do-yeon playing a corrupt cop who we meet as she’s being released after serving 2 years in prison. It’s shown in flashback that before her time behind bars she was in a relationship with another corrupt cop, played by a cameoing Continue reading →
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