The movie review will be up on the EonTalk website, so be sure to follow the EonTalk social media channels to stay up to date! Critic Reviews for Jo Pil-ho: The Dawning Rage. The Dawning Rage could have been a much better film if Lee Jeong-beom had kept it simpler and had just focus on the dynamics of the relationship of the two protagonists Unfortunately, he decided to follow an unnecessary complex path.

The story itself, written by Lee Jeong-beom and Im Beom, isn't all that dissimilar from your usual anti-hero detective thriller born out of conventional genre tropes and flood the South Korean market. Jo Pil-Ho is a petty cop who bribes small-time criminals and thugs in return to keep the record-books clean. This keeps his existence going, often inviting the wrath of internal affairs team within his department.

Jo Pil-ho: The Dawning Rage

On a fateful night, he finds himself on the wrong side of the law when he decides to steal. Find out if Jo Pil-ho: The Dawning Rage is a movie for you in our review below. A story about a cop named Jo Pil-ho. We watch a lot of movies from South Korea and they very rarely disappoint. Jo Pil-ho: The Dawning Rage doesn't either and it is definitely worth watching. And that main character is Jo Pil-ho (Sun-kyun Lee) who spends the opening of The Dawning Rage brashly talking to his colleagues and occasionally All this is born from a conflict of interest, where he is hurt by an explosion at a police warehouse.

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Jo Pil-ho: The Dawning Rage

Jo Pil-ho: The Dawning Rage

Jo Pil-ho: The Dawning Rage demonstrates a fight. Starring Lee Sun-kyun, Jeon So-nee, Park Hae-joon and Song Young-Chang in the lead roles, this is director Lee's fourth feature length film as a director after No Tears for the Dead that released in. Revolving around a corrupt cop as the protagonist, the movies takes the audience on a journey as they see how the "Vicious Cop" (literal translation of the Korean title of the movie) starts.

Jo Pil-ho is a corrupt cop, who does not seem to have any empathy for others but when he gets As crazy and twisted as they get, Korean movies are actually more real than the Hollywood happy If I had one real complaint of The Dawning Rage it would be that this is the most westernised Hollywood. Where to Stream: Jo Pil-ho: The Dawning Rage. What Movies Will It Remind You Of?: Jo Pil-ho is culled from the same dirty-denim wardrobe of other corrupt-cop films — think Dark Blue, Narc, Training Day, etc. — and stitched to a snatch of high-level corporate-malfeasance drama a la Michael Clayton. But Lee Jeong-beom's upcoming crime film "Jo Pil-ho: The Dawning Rage" takes it to another level, replacing character development with cliches and corny dialogue while tying in one of the biggest tragedies in the country's recent memory to no clear point.