my grade
-/5

average
3.15/5

Shiri

number of reviews: 0number of reviews: 1number of reviews: 2number of reviews: 2number of reviews: 7number of reviews: 14number of reviews: 12number of reviews: 16number of reviews: 14number of reviews: 4

Cinemasie's opinions

11 reviews: 2.82/5

your opinions

61 reviews: 3.23/5



Ordell Robbie 2 Thanks to soccer..
Yann K 3.5
Alain 2.5
François 3.25
Ghost Dog 2.75
jeffy 3.5
Elise 2.5
Aurélien 0.75
MLF 2.75
Flying Marmotte 3.75
Arno Ching-wan 3.75
order by grades | date | reviewer    lengths: any length medium and long only long only


Thanks to soccer..

Shiri manages to be during its last half an hour a little bit more than an ordinary action blockbuster. Before, it was action without emotion, the use of documentary like cameras not as brilliant as in a Fukasaku movie, a too confuse editing, a horrible Hans Zimmer-like score, an everything but subtle vision of the conflict between North and South Korea. Okay, the romance as a reflect of a nation's tragedy is a little bit showing itself during the second part but there's still not enough melodrama to make it watcheable. But the end... It is as powerful in dramatic intensity as a John Woo movie, tragic sad and ends with the kinda slow song we like to like to hear in a Hero Movie. But the movie is worth seeing as a symbol of the limits of the Korean cinematographic industry: it borrows some elements from HK and japanese cinema -here the mix between action and melodrama and a violence more graphic than in US movies-, from Hollywood -a technical level higher than in HK and Japan, the rythm, formal elements owing to Mac Tiernan, Cameron or Bruckheimer- to fill the gap created by the fall of the HK cinematographic industry -and Shiri was hailed as an event at the time by HK movie fans lacking of action movies since the departure of Jet Li and co to Hollywood- but never manages to create its own style.



25 August 2003
by Ordell Robbie


buy it
info
actions
plus
  • links
  • serial/remake
  • box office
  • awards
  • pics
  • trailer
  • audio extract


community