Perry Kate
Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Kamila Bell
This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
Ella-May O'Brien
Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
Prashast Singh
Movie: Secret Reunion (15): Action - KoreanDirector Jang Hoon has made many great films, and SECRET REUNION is one of those films. Without talking much, let's jump straight to the positives and negatives:Positives:The performances of Song Kang-ho and Kang Dong-won are extremely realistic. Their bonding is a treat to watch.The film has some intensely thrilling and tension-inducing moments due to which it doesn't let go of your attention.The action scenes are very well executed and placed accordingly.The editing is top notch as the film doesn't bore for even a second.The film has a powerful climax which needs to be seen.Some bits of humour are very well executed.Negatives:Well, nothing much!Repeat Value: YesOn the whole, SECRET REUNION is a very gripping and entertaining action film. Watch it soon, with your best friend!
svorva
Secret Reunion is a reminder that geographic distance alone is never a cultural barrier. One could even get away with calling this spy/thriller/buddy with a dash of comedy formulaic. Maybe it is. I might just be fooled by the foreign language, but Secret Reunion Is not just familiar, but fresh. The film hinges on the relationship between two opposing intelligence agents. Both have been abandoned by country and separated from family. Kang-ho Song plays the damaged bumbling South Korean field agent. I enjoyed his performance more than anything in this film. I cannot logically justify this, but this is the third film were he felt like a Korean Humphrey Boggart. Yes this is crazy, but how could I better articulate this man's natural charisma? Dong-won Kang has a tougher roll as the desperate emotional despondent North Korean operative. His character was just written uninteresting, but he holds his own while interacting Song. Perhaps a weakness of the film is that I enjoy it when these two simply coexisting more than when they are chasing each other. I guess something has to justify the action sequences. Nothing surprising here, except possibly the institution of foreign brides to western audiences. A sociologist might find its portrayal interesting, I just enjoyed how it forced Song to reach for moral justifications. Otherwise, the story is cookie cutter and wraps up so unrealistically clean you would think Reunion briefly teleported to Hollywood. But hey, Casablanca was made by recipe, so I can give this movie half a pass. It is hard to completely recommend a benign spy film. I think those who have previously other Korean smash hits will dig Secret Reunion. Song's performance provides just enough to outshine the truly mediocre. Just please don't ignore this endorsement because of the insane Boggart comparison.
dbborroughs
South Korean agent in charge of an attempt to catch a North Korean assassin named Shadow resigns when it all goes south. Six years later he hooks with and plays cat and mouse with an North Korean agent who was branded a traitor as the result of the same botched job.Fantastic action sequences get lost in a action/buddy/comedy that with a few changes might very well have come from Hollywood. The problem with the film is the center section of the film where the two men try to figure out what the other one is doing without letting on what their own situation is (both think that the other is better connected to the other side than they really are) I liked it but I didn't fall in love with it. Certainly it was a film that made me ponder what such a clear Hollywood clone was doing in the New York Asian Film Festival which strives to promote the un-Hollywood film or films unlikely to get a US release, I can see this very clearly getting a US DVD release if nothing else.Not a bad film by any stretch, its just not a particularly remarkable one.
KineticSeoul
I watched this film in theaters at AMC with some of my relatives, and I must say it was pretty entertaining. Now did it beat my expectations? That I would have to say no, but I still enjoyed this film and was worth watching it on the big screen. I don't really like the actor Kang-ho Song he seems to play the same obnoxious and very uncool character in just about every movie he is in so far but I must say he fit right in with his character. He plays a agent of the National Intelligence Service. Kang Dong-won did a alright job playing the North Korean spy although he was more of a way to get younger teens to go watch the movie. Lot of the entertainment comes from both character acting all buddy buddy at first just so they can dig at one another for information, and also enjoyed there awkward bonding later on. This isn't one of those groundbreaking movies from Korea or anything, but it was well worth the time to watch.7.8/10
