Director Choi Dong-hoon's kinetic adaptation of Huh Young-man and Kim Se-young's popular comic book cuts back and forth between present and past to tell an intricate tale about luck, lies and reversals of fortune among the high rollers —
tazza — who prowl Korea's underground gambling scene. Its center is the meteoric ascent of Goni (Cho Seung-woo), who in two eventful years rises from naive mark to king of the card table. But there are interlocking secondary stories unfolding simultaneously, and Goni keeps them all humming along in perfect balance.
The story is told with steely assurance by spider-woman Madame Jeung (Kim Hye-soo), a sultry grifter w...
Released:
2006
Rated:
NR
Length:
139 mins