NR | 1h 59min | Drama, Crime, Thriller | 10 June 2022 (USA)
Over the last two decades the majority of the movies being produced in South Korea have been rooted in horror which, while pleasing fans of that genre, tend to be ignored by critics as well as mainstream and art-house audiences.
Things began to change in the mid 2010s with the arrival of prestige dramas such as “Snowpiercer,” “The Handmaiden,” “Okja,” “Forgotten,” and “Parasite,” which is the first and only non-English language movie to win not one, but two Best Picture Oscars.
Incorporating the better elements of American good cop/bad cop movies and the 2002 Hong Kong masterpiece “Infernal Affairs” (remade by Martin Scorsese in 2006 as “The Departed”: another Best Picture winner), “The Policeman’s Lineage” keeps the viewer guessing for the duration….