The negotiation

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Movie
German title The negotiation
Original title Hyeopsang ( 협상 )
Country of production South Korea
original language Korean
Publishing year 2018
length 114 minutes
Rod
Director Lee Jong-seok
script Choi Sung-hyun
production Yoon Je-kyoon
music Hwang Sang-joon
camera Lee Tae-yoon
cut Jung Jin-hee
occupation

The Negotiation (Original title: Hyeopsang ) is a thriller by the South Korean director Lee Jong-seok from 2018.

action

Commissioner Ha Chae-yun is called in to negotiate a hostage situation. The perpetrators don't speak Korean, so she cares. But when she was negotiating with the perpetrators, a special unit stormed the building. The hostage-takers and the hostages die. Chae-yun has had enough after that and wants to quit. But suddenly she is called to a new negotiation.

Min Tae-gu has taken Korean hostages in Thailand . He himself is a British citizen and trades in arms in Southeast Asia. His motive is unclear. Initially, he does not make any demands. The hostages are Chae-yun's former boss, Jung, and a journalist. First the head of the newspaper for which the journalist works is supposed to come. But he doesn't even know the journalist. Instead, the secret service tells him what to say. But Tae-gu sees through the game and shoots Jung, but leaves the journalist alive.

As it turns out, this one is a secret agent. The head of the secret service and the head of a weapons company are involved in the murder of Min's sister, which is why he wants to call the people over to him one by one. In time, Chae-yun also finds out.

reception

The Negotiation opened in South Korean cinemas on September 19, 2018 and had almost 2 million admissions. For David Noh from the Film Journal , Lee Jong-seok manages to keep the tension on his directorial debut. The film is full of action and twists. Shim Sun-ah of Yonhap shares this view. The film is exciting through and through. However, the film has some typical elements of thrillers, which makes it partly predictable. For Kevin Crust of the Los Angeles Times , The Negotiation is too sluggish. The plot and the characters are improbable, implausible and ridiculous. Joanne Soh from The New Paper finds the plot predictable, but the underlying tension makes up for it. She also praises the performance of the two main actors. Son leads the viewer through an emotional roller coaster while Hyun Bin embodies anger and hate in an impressive way.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Negotiation (2018). In: Korean Film Biz Zone. KOFIC, accessed June 29, 2019 .
  2. ^ David Noh: Film Review: The Negotiation. In: Film Journal International. September 21, 2018, accessed June 29, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Shim Sun-ah: (Movie Review) 'The Negotiation': A gripping suspense thriller. In: Yonhap . September 11, 2018, accessed June 29, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Kevin Crust: Review: Sluggish South Korean crime drama 'The Negotiation' fails to create sparks. In: The Los Angeles Times . September 20, 2018, accessed June 29, 2019 .
  5. ^ Joanne Soh: The Negotiation (PG13). In: The New Paper . October 3, 2018, accessed June 29, 2019 .