Synopsis
Silence kills.
A serial killer ruthlessly hunts down a deaf woman through the streets of South Korea after she witnesses his brutal crime.
2021 ‘미드나이트’ Directed by Kwon Oh-seung
A serial killer ruthlessly hunts down a deaf woman through the streets of South Korea after she witnesses his brutal crime.
Jin Ki-joo Wi Ha-jun Park Hoon Kil Hae-yeon Kim Hye-yoon Lee Sang-hee Park Ji-hoon Eun-Woo Bae Min-woo Choi Oh Ji-young Jung Won-Chang Im Sung Mi Noh Su Min Na Eun Saem Shin Mi-yeong Song You-hyun Na Yoon-sung Kim In-woo Kim Yoo-ri Kim Kwang-shik Lee Yoo-jun Tae Won-seok Ahn Sang-eun Bae Eun-woo Lee Jin-mok Kwon Young-min Lee Se-hee Yoon Boo Jin Lee Sang-eun Show All…
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wi ha joon: i'm literally a psychopathic killer
me, twirls hair: it's okay babe i can fix you
One of the biggest complaints I heard about this movie was that the cops are dumb and bad at their jobs and, like...I have some bad news for you about actual cops
There's too many serial killers in South Korean media that I developed some sort of fatigue about them. There's also the tendency of their serial killer characters to go full psycho, and the antagonist here really did went full psycho. At first he was threatening, then he becomes cringe, by the end of the movie his cringe becomes threatening.
While there are some nice chase sequences in here that's reminiscent of a much better South Korean thriller The Chaser (2008), I still had to stretch my suspension of disbelief to fully enjoy this movie. I can nitpick how apparently no one's outside during midnight, or the police are idiots, or the deaf people don't carry whistles; but I understand that those are just made to further the plot. Still, if you resort to making your characters stupid to stretch the runtime, then it's bad writing.
killing is bad, but if someone as hot and sexy as wi hajoon is doing the crime, then it’s totally fine
When deaf Kyung-mi gets tangled up in a messy cat and mouse chase through the empty backstreets of South Korea with a cynical and conniving serial killer, she fights for her and her mothers survival.
I will watch any and all Korean thrillers, the good, the bad and the somewhat frustrating, Midnight falls under the latter, this isn’t like your typical over two-hour South Korean thriller that we’ve all grown to admire, this focuses more on its protagonists mother/daughter relationship, broadcasts inventive use of sound and its fast paced engaging chase sequences. The highlight is our overly-smiley sociopath Do-sik played by the exceedingly charming Wi Ha-joon, he can play psychopath almost too well and flips the switch numerous times from…