Abandoned by his mother shortly after immigrating to America, Gon is raised by the mafia and grows up to become a cold-blooded hit-man. Though usually flawless in taking out his targets, Gon makes a terrible mistake of killing an innocent young girl. A flood of guilt takes over his life and the situation becomes worse when his boss assigns him the job of killing the young girl's mother. Gon's new target, Mogyeong, is a risk manager at an investment firm and has buried herself in work to bury her grief. She is completely unaware of her role at the heart of a dangerous conspiracy.
No Tears for the Dead is a film I've been dying to see for a long, long time. Ever since it was announced that The Man from Nowhere director Lee Jeong-beom was making a new action film I was hyped like crazy. This led to some impossibly high expectations and that's probably why No Tears for the Dead proved to be slightly underwhelming to me. There's some unnecessary English dialogue between people who both talk Korean, and it's not as packed with amazing fight sequences as The Man from Nowhere was, but instead takes some time to develop the plot.
Still, that's not exactly a bad thing, and this film has it where it counts and delivers some really cool, fast shots and intense shootouts. You can just tell that the director has completely mastered the art of filming an action scene. So, a good action flick that doesn't quite reach the same level of intensity of the directors previous work, but a satisfying and wonderfully shot action fest nonetheless.
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Genre: Action/Drama
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