RYOO Seung-wan is a figure announcing the arrival of a new generation in Korean film from the 2000s. [...] People had the impression that they were going to love the power of RYOO Seung-wan, where bloody, raw feelings were captured vividly and faithfully, pulled from real life. [...] In modern Korean film, the films of RYOO Seung-wan weave the most dazzling carpet, where the tendencies of the A-list movie and the B-movie, the action film and the documentary of life on the streets, the melodrama capturing characters' tears and the gore film refusing to shy away from the depiction of blood-spattered battles, the realist spirit looking into the minute details of life and the fantasy film seeking to nimbly surmount the suffering of this world all mix freely and form interesting new wrinkles.
