Nowhere To Hide

With a little more plot, this could have been a killer. As it stands, Korean director Lee Myung-Se's thriller is a bare-bones, bare-knuckles policier, a hard-boiled action film stripped to almost surreal simplicity. When the head of a powerful drug gang is stabbed to death in broad daylight, two of Inchon's finest are assigned to solve what they believe is the latest strike in a ongoing drug war. Detective Kim (Jang Dong-Kun) is a mild-mannered sort who takes his work seriously; his partner Woo (Park Joong-Hoon), however, is the kind of rouge cop who makes Mike Hammer look like Miss Marple. Woo's credo: "If I car...