No Mercy

No Mercy is yet another korean police/revenge movie. Its quite well made, with exquisite camera work, as with most korean movies that I get to see. Probably a rung below Memories of Murder, Mother and the Revenge Trilogy of Park-Chan Wook, it nonetheless is a gripping movie with a stunning revelation at the end.
The movie starts with a dismembered corpse of a girl and a forensic pathologist performs autopsy on the body. The killer is soon caught, a crippled fanatic environmentalist who seemed to be making a point by cutting the body into 6 pieces. But then it all turns personal, hurtling inevitably towards an absolutely breathtaking end.
(I thought) I didnt know any of the actors, imdb informs me that the main antagonist starred in Sympathy for Mr Vengeance (one of the best revenge movies made, ever!), as the retarded boy by the river! I do remember that scene, it was quite special, but dont remember the face sadly! Also, he was the lead in Arahan, another movie I had watched quite a while back, so total blank as far as faces are concerned.
Acting is quite good in the movie and music is ok. There are plenty of (tastefully done) gruesome scenes, its certainly not for the lily-livered. Apparently this is the directors first movie, its certainly a commendable effort.