Last night, a friend of mine rented a DVD and brought it over to my house. This movie was the Korean action flick, Shiri. Shiri was one of the worst movies I have ever seen. It should be called Shit-ri.

Suppossedly, this movie was a huge box-office smash in Seoul. It's the highest gossing film in the history of the country, breaking records set by Titanic. At 5 million bucks, Shiri was also the most costly film in Korean history. Most of this money was spend on fake blood and guns rented from some outfit in Hollywood.

Perhaps the problem was that was the subtitles were lacking and made it difficult to follow the plot. Somehow I doubt that. It was just a piece of Hong Kong inspred wholesale violence piece of tripe that was popular in Korea because it dealt with the reunification of the peninsula in a modern, somewhat hip way.

One of the few pleasures of the film from comes from the name of the lead actor: Han Sukyu.