“Cold Eyes” is a South Korean action-drama
film starring Jung Woo-sung, Han Hyo-Joo, Sol Kyung-gu, and Lee Jun-ho.
Han Hyo-joo as Ha Yoon-jo
Jung Woo-sung as James
Sol Kyung-gu as Detective Hwang
Lee Jun-ho as Agent "Squirrel"
This
film which is a remake of a Hongkong film titled “Eye in the Sky” (2007) was
released in July 2013. The film tells a story about a special surveillance team
of Korean Police which is in a mission to take down a bank
robbing-organization. The script was written by Jo Ui-seok and the movie was
directed by Jo Ui-seok and Kim Byung-seo.
The first scene of the movie took
place in a subway where a girl was keeping an eye on a middle-aged man reading
a news paper. The girl kept on following the man even until he got off the
subway and walked on the city’s street. Unlucky, the girl was caught off by the
middle-aged man. The girl turned out to be a candidate of a surveillance team
and it was her test to spy the man. Her name is Ha Yoon-joo (Han Hyo-joo) and
the man, Detective Hwang (Sol Kyung-gu), was actually the section chief of the
surveillance team. Eventhough Yoon-joo was caught off, but she passed the test
because of her great observation skills and memorization. Then, she officially
became a new member of the team with code name ”Piglet”.
On the other place, the movie
showed a scene of a mysterious man standing on a skyscraper’s rooftop while
commanding a bank robbery mission through his cellphone. The robbery succeeded,
thanks to the mysterious man’s guidance, eventhough they almost caught off by
the police. But, unfortunately, one of the robber’s face, nicknamed “Hippo”,
was seen by the CCTV. Later on, the Korean Police tried to track down this
robber organization based on the CCTV’s record.
The Korean Police then gave the
mission of tracking down the robber organization to the surveillance team. This
was Yoon-joo’s first mission after being a member of the team. Other than her,
there were also another member who joined this mission. They were the team
leader: Detective Hwang, Agent “Squirrel” (Lee Jun-ho), Department head, Ms.
Lee, and some other agents too. The started off the mission by splitting up
around the city and waited for Hippo’s appearance. Three days and they still
couldn’t find any hint of the target. Yoon-joo told Detective Hwang to change
their observation area and finally they caught a glimpse of their target,
Hippo. Yoon-joo followed Hippo to his apartment and got his address. After
that, Agent Squirrel came to help her and put some secret cameras near Hippo’s
apartment.
After some days of observation,
they found out about the organization’s plan to rob a stock market. The police
and surveillance team guard the area and wait for the robber to come. They
almost caught the organization team, but the operation failed because James (Jung
Woo-sung), the mysterious man earlier, who happened to be their leader, knew
the police’s plan to take them down. He commanded the robbers to abort their
operation by his cellphone. The surveillance team then tracked down James’s
position by his cellphone. Finally, James and the team were on an intense
chasing action. Yoon-joo succeded to find his position but she couldn’t get
closer to him. Later on, Agent Squirrel
came to help her to stop James but he was killed by James. TT_______TT (WHY DID
YOU KILL HIM, JAMES?!) *oops sorry ._.v*
Agent Squirrel’s death shocked
all of the team. This brought the surveillance team into a breakdown, including
Yoon-joo. She felt depressed because she had just lost her team mate. But
Detective Hwang came to comfort her. He said, “This is our job. You need to set
aside your feeling or you will lose. You need to be insane to win this game.”
One day, Yoon-joo bumped into
James on the subway. She contacted the Police Department and followed James.
Upon hearing the news, Detective Hwang also on standby to help Yoon-joo.
Finally Yoon-joo followed James into a restaurant. James, who was suspicious of
Yoon-joo came to confront her. But, thanks to her great acting skill, James
lost his suspicion toward her and was about to leave when Hwang entered the
restaurant. James recognized Hwang’s face and attacked him while the two of
them were on a parking area. Yoon-joo found the bleeding Hwang but he told her
not to worry about him and keep on chasing James.
She found James and followed him
into an unused subway platform but then lost him. James actually was standing
behind her and threaten her by a gun. The police came to the platform but James
used Yoon-joo as a hostage. Yoon-joo stabbed his leg using a pen and it made
James let go of her. James then escaped and ran along the subway track. On the
other scene, Hwang ran into the other side of the subway track and was face to
face to James. He and James were ready to shoot each other with their gun. Ms.
Lee commanded him not to shoot James because it was too risky, but then Hwang
replied her by saying, “You need to be insane to win this game.” Then, James
and Hwang involved in a dramatic shooting battle. James was shot to death and
the police caught him. Yoon-joo ran to find Hwang. They finally succeeded the
mission. All of the team member cheered happily.
The last scene of the movie
showed Yoon-jo and Hwang in a mission to take down their new target, an
international villain who once worked with James before.
Sooo.. that was a long-long retell
about the movie. My personal opinion about the movie: A+ for the special effects
and the nerve wrecking atmosphere throughout the movie. And another A+ for the
way they showed how a surveillance mission works. The strategy, the hi-tech,
and many other things. I love the casts, their acting was so good and felt so
natural. Well, the main plot maybe similar to another movies with a same genre,
making the ending a bit predictable. But..
trust me, the way the director conducted the movie was so great that it will
make you keep wanting to know what will happen next. You can feel the
nervousness and thrilling atmosphere created by the movie. Weeeell, my
conclusion is this movie is totally worth to watch! Four stars out of five! :)
Thanks for reading! ^^
