{"id":32403,"date":"2023-03-27T08:04:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=32403"},"modified":"2023-03-26T18:19:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T22:19:14","slug":"i-saw-the-devil-2010-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=32403","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I Saw the Devil&#8221; (2010) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z032723zview_isawdevil.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>I Saw the Devil <\/strong><\/em>(2010)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>Jee-woon Kim<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Writer:<strong> Park Hoon-jung <\/strong>(screenplay), <strong>Jee-woon Kim<\/strong> (adaptation)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Lee Byung-hun, Choi Min-sik\u00a0<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em> To Catch A Monster He Must Become One<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When a serial killer murders a government agent&#8217;s pregnant wife, the agent captures, tortures and then releases the killer.\u00a0 The agent then captures, tortures and releases the killer again.\u00a0 How long will this go on before one murders the other?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>I Saw the Devil<\/em> is well directed.\u00a0 Jee-woon Kim is an excellent director.\u00a0 He creates shots that are impressive and scenes that produce tension, fear and humor as needed.\u00a0 The two leads are very good.\u00a0 Where it goes off the rails for me is with the story and the gore.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The film loses me when the agent releases the serial killer after torturing him.\u00a0 The serial killer then attacks a girl.\u00a0 The agent stops him, but not before the killer has sexually assaulted the young woman.\u00a0 The agent beats the killer and then releases him yet again.\u00a0 The killer then attacks another woman. And the agent stops him mid-attack.\u00a0 Rinse and repeat.\u00a0 The agent could have saved these women from ever being molested.\u00a0 It&#8217;d be one thing if the killer was taken in and escaped to attack women.\u00a0 To have the agent release him so the agent could capture and torture him again is just stupid&#8230; and sick.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking of sick, <em>I Saw the Devil\u00a0<\/em>contains many gory scenes.\u00a0 It wallows in scenes of torture.\u00a0 While some movie fans enjoy graphic depictions of abuse, I&#8217;m not one.\u00a0 The agent&#8217;s final plan to end the serial killer&#8217;s life involved a scene worthy of the <em>Saw<\/em> franchise.\u00a0 The killer is beheaded when the killer&#8217;s elderly parents and his young son open a door.\u00a0 The killer&#8217;s head rolls to sit in front of his little boy and his parents.\u00a0 How sick is that?\u00a0 Too sick for my taste.\u00a0 Keep in mind that<em> I Saw the Devil<\/em> has earned high ratings on IMDb as well as many awards.\u00a0 Your mileage may vary greatly from mine on this one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><em><strong>I Saw the Devil <\/strong><\/em>(2010) rates 2 <\/span><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z032723zview_isawdevil2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"294\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Saw the Devil (2010) Director: Jee-woon Kim Writer: Park Hoon-jung (screenplay), Jee-woon Kim (adaptation) Stars: Lee Byung-hun, Choi Min-sik\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,53,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-horror","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32403"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32447,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32403\/revisions\/32447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}