After 10 days of movies, it's a comfort to sit in a theatre and let a real "popcorn" movie roll in front of me. This year, a Korean film called "Cold Eyes" fit the bill.
An elite team of police surveillance experts race against the clock to bring down a team of criminals, led by a psychotic mastermind. The plot is essentially an anti-caper film and is a bit silly, but the editing is crisp and the cast attack their two-dimensional characters with enthusiasm. The ending is deliberately open-ended, suggesting that the producers have a franchise in mind.
It's interesting in a year where electronic surveillance is a common theme (along with mistrust of the governments involved in it), that there is a film that is an unabashed supporter of it to the effort to bring down the "bad guys".
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