Hayden Kane
There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
ashild-blovvig
One thing I've noticed with Chan-Wook Park's movies is that his strongest skills lies in the visuals, while sometimes the story has some bigger holes and weaknesses. This is especially the case of Thirst.I enjoy Chan-Wook Park's movies as any other, I love his visual style. I think my favourite so far is The Handmaiden. Oldboy is also good. First, some complaints.My problem with this movie is that it doesn't seem to know exactly what it wants to be. It's a bit dark, but not that dark. It's a bit comical and odd, but not that odd or not that comical. It has elements of a long Journey/rise and fall story, but doesn't fill that criteria either. I had quite many problems with the end because it built up to something dramatic (not epic, but quite emotional), but in between of when you know what is going to happen and the ending itsself, there's some odd, misplased comical part (but it also seemed natural at the same time, because of the weird comedy? I have mixed feelings about it), and I didn't believe the way Tae-ju (Ok-bin Kim) acted and reacted to any of it (I feel that's more fault on the screenplay and less on the actress).The movie jumps a lot in time and has a lot of fades where there's no necessity for fades. One character is about to say something, but then it cuts to something else, one thing happens, and the next there's a misplaced scene right after it. I've seen movies where this kind of editing can work, but in this movie, it just doesn't work that well. There were also a couple of scenes where the action of a character really didn't make sense and wasn't explained in any way.I like the characters, but some of them (especially Tae-ju) have some strange character arcs that somehow doesn't fit right with me. It works and doesn't work at the same time. They're interesting, but also act strange and unnatural, so it's difficult to know where you have them, and it makes them unpredictable in their behaviour (which, depending on your taste, can be good or bad).Another complaint is that whoever did the sound design was a little too liberal with the licking/sucking/spit/mouth sounds. I get that it can be emphasized in a vampire movie, but it loses it's effect after the first ten times.Now, things I liked:I do like that the movie is a little out of the box when it comes to the vampire theme, although it still follows the more typical love vampire story. There's luckily no "order" or something of vampires, no explanation of where it came from, it just so happens that Sang-hyeon (Kang-ho Song) was unlucky and got the wrong blood. I like the lore in this one, where if he doesn't feed, he starts to become ill almost like a leper.And my favourite actor in this movie, I have to say, is the mother Lady Ra (Hae-suk Kim). She's plays her character perfectly, she's maleficent and kind of evil, but also really funny (my favourite line by her has to be the very simple and short "Closing time" when the shops closes after no customers for the whole day), loves her son (a little too much), and further out in the film gets more and more interesting.The visuals are, as always, beautiful. Like I mentioned, Chan-wook Park is really good with visuals, and I'm glad he continues to use it.The movie is in general enjoyable. I can ignore the oddities, or appreciate them, and enjoy it as a relatively simple movie. I'd say this is a good vampire movie, not great, but worth a watch.
ICanNeverThinkOfAGoodUsername
(I'm not from South Korea so maybe that's why I didn't like this film that much) This film was weird. The scenes between the characters was weird. The sexual scenes were particularly weird. However, throughout the film I was never bored. In a strange way I wanted to keep on watching the film despite it not being that good.It wasn't really a good film. It didn't really make any real sense. It was an extremely weird film to watch. I felt no connection towards any of the characters and some scenes were confusing.Overall, I wouldn't recommend this film. It was somewhat boring but once you started watching it you want to keep on watching it because it's so weird.
MixalisX Chidi
I am all for a good slow moving vampire story, but this was just not the case. First of all i was truly and deeply bored of it. The story takes forever to unfold and when it does it leaves big plot holes. The reason the protagonist is transformed in to a vampire is still unclear to me as much as it is to him. I see the director tried something new but it totally missed the spot. After the first act it took a little turn in to erotic- almost pornography. The rest is a mismatch of different movie styles. Anyway my point is that the movie is way to overrated and about 30 minutes longer then it should be. If you want a truly nice but slow moving and engaging vampire story i definitely recommend ''byzantium'' .
dillonpsd
Maybe I don't get the overacting of Asian film's but this movie sucked! Besides being over acted and having the most disturbingly annoying noises (slurp slurp) this movie was horrid. I watched it after seeing a high review of a 7.1, which is great for a horror film.Sex scenes were so annoying, and I was expecting a kick ass vampire movie. Instead I got nothing but some Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon sex show with humans who liked to drink blood.Save yourself a headache and embarrassment!I hated Twighlight, and I would rather watch that movie 1000x before watching this crap again. It was so beyond boring, confusing, and a total waste of time.3/10
