It's Entertaining at Best.

I remember hearing about this movie a couple months ago but didn't really know much about it, other than it takes place in 1988 and there was some robbery or heist involved.

For a 2+ hour long movie, it's surprising lacking in the character development area. There are far too many unknowns that we are left to guess or make assumptions about. For example, why was Park Dong Wook (main lead) so invested in getting to the USA - we're not really given an answer and it might having something to do with racing but we have to guess. There's a lot missing from this movie about his family that is left to us to try and piece together or just blatantly ignore.

For the main character to be quite obsessed with the USA and the USA rap scene (given his 'shrine' to it), I was surprised by the lack of actual late 80's American rap music. We get a couple of songs - I think only two - not sure if budget wasn't allowing for more, he has an album in his shrine but no music from that artist is used during the movie.

The car chase scenes were okay, let's be honest, there are a lot better car chase scenes out there in movie land and with having to age Seoul backwards, a lot of scenes felt either completely CGI and/or a lot of green/blue screen (not necessarily a bad thing but noticeable).

This probably would have been better as a limited 8 or 10 part series where they could have fleshed out the characters and have a better script, because yes - the script was definitely lacking.

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