Synopsis
Veteran (베테랑, 2015) is a Korean action thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Detective Seo Do-cheol has a simple operating principle: go straight at the problem and figure out the damage later. His latest problem has a name — Jo Tae-oh, a young heir to one of South Korea's biggest conglomerates, who beat a truck driver badly enough to put him in hospital and assumes that his family's money makes the whole thing go away.
Hwang Jung-min plays Seo as someone running on caffeine, instinct and barely-contained stubbornness — a detective who is exactly as competent as he is reckless. Yoo Ah-in's antagonist is the most interesting part of the film: a villain who is genuinely charming right up until he isn't, which makes him more unsettling than any of the straight muscle. Director Ryoo Seung-wan, who made The Berlin File and Spiritwalker, keeps the action escalating from scene to scene, and the climax delivers everything the build-up promises.
One of the highest-grossing Korean films of that year. Stream Veteran (2015) online on iFILM.
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