Product Details

• Actors: Joong-Hoon Park, Sung-kee Ahn, Dong-gun Jang, Ji-Woo Choi, Jae-mo Ahn
• Directors: Myung-se Lee
• Writers: Myung-se Lee
• Format: Color, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Lions Gate
• DVD Release Date: April 17, 2001
• Run Time: 112 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005A05O
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #147,273 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Nowhere to Hide" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 09/09/2008 Run time: 90 minutes Rating: R

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best crime dramas I have seen!!, August 4, 2001

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"-dbn-" (Alaska) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nowhere to Hide (DVD)

Every now and than comes a movie that just excites you from the opening credits to the ending credits. This Movie is one of them!

I remember seeing this movie at the video store and wonder: "what the hell is this about?" I put the dvd in the player, pressed start and the rest was magic! I loved it so much I watched it twice that day, and ordered it the next day.

If you are a big fan of film editing, this movie will amaze you! I have not been so excited from a movie by how it was cut! You have to see it for yourself, to see what I am talking about.

The story, plot, characters, sound, lighting, edit, and music are purely great! Myung-se Lee seems to be on the right road one day to be consider great among his peers, if he keeps up with this kind of direction for his movies.

As for now, I am becoming a great fan of his movies.. and cannot wait to see what he'll do next!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the most original Action movies ever come out!, July 13, 2001

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"hideone" (Wolfeboro, NH United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nowhere to Hide (DVD)

This film is Lee, myungse's first try at action genre, before he only made drama and romance kinda movies. At his middle of directing career, he finally found something different which was mostly a visual touch. It is not like an American film, it had no good plots, but the raw feeling and erie images are working at their best. You will remember some scenes; they won't go away easily from your brain. All I can say is that you will see something new and unique, and that is why this movie deserves my rating. (Creativity) Five Stars. Don't miss it!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Groundbreaking eye candy!, February 2, 2009

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Kakihara (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nowhere to Hide (DVD)

I really do not understand why this film has been getting such a varied response! It may be true that the story is nothing new BUT VISUALLY I would even consider this a work of art - something that I've rarely said about an action film since the original new wave of Hong Kong cinema hit these shores way back (and was in turn, co-opted by Hollywood). Black & white, freeze frame, slo-mo, every trick in the book is utilized by this talented director creating an giddy head-swirling, brain-twisting, "what's next?" effect throughout.
Key scenes: "Holiday" - the set-up for the film's plot bounces between B&W & over-saturated colour. The "businessman" (crime boss) murder & robbery takes place in the rain (as does many of the dramatic high points - in rain or snow) as the melancholy BeeGees' 1st album track plays (back when they were imitating Sgt. Pepper, prior to imitating KC & the Sunshine Band!). "The Duel" - the INCREDIBLE fight scene during a downpour (of course!) is the epic climax of the whole wild ride which is definitely one of the greatest bits of filmmaking I've seen in hundreds of films! In fact, never have I seen as exciting a movie fight with less than a dozen punches thrown - kind of the reverse mirror effect of a Jackie Chan/Sammo Hung/Yuen Biao style hyperactive stunt-fest. This very scene is where "The Matrix" comparison comes from - NOT THE PLOT but the visual style, for those above who seem confused about this point. I've watched this sequence dozens of times and it never fails to amaze! The cherry-bomb on top of this thrill cake.
I can only add the cool acting - especially our anti-hero "thugs with badges" who are armed with baseball bats and tear gas guns and have no moral reservations about beating handcuffed suspects for information and the lineup of bad guys - not only our main villain radiating cool in his sunglasses, trenchcoat & machete, but guys named "Fish Head" & "Meat Head". I also add the startling music selections to the "plus" column & recommend this to anybody that appreciates Asian action cinema at its finest. I'm looking forward to more from this director and just wish there would have been a sequel!