This movie contains a strong chemistry of two brothers from different mother. The movie is very slow and confusing for the first half. But as time passes, you will be very absorbed into the story and it's characters. They two characters later creates a strong relationship, bond, and trust against each other. It make you care about them and wonder what has happened to them. There are many humours and drama in this movie... I wouldn't reccomend this movie for a young family. It has some sexual humours and excessive language. The moral taught in this lesson is powerful and great. It will move your heart and make you want to watch the movie again! Excellent acting, Good scenario, and nice humour! Definately a movie not to miss.
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A good entertainer
sathyaaero11 October 2020
A good movie with strong message about family relationship. This movie didn't bored me at any portions. The background music was good. The actor acted in that brother role done his performance excellent. Placement of humor was nice. Cinematography was good.
Finally, it's a good entertainer.
Love It, Hate It...That's Family
aria-ariana201219 October 2013
Having quite a fun time watching this movie.
I have watch the City of Uprising Sun where Lee Jung Jae was bullied by Lee Beom-soo and now this movie came after wards with the roles reversed.
This story look into the journey of two brothers trying to connect after the death of their father; both don't share the same mother. Sang-woo (Lee Jung-jae) is the older brother and having to look after his younger brother, Bong-ku (Lee Beom-soo) who suffer from a disease where he's aging fast (sorry, can't recalled the medical term).
They love-hate relationship is touching and funny at the same time. Both actors really shine with their acting.
The story has just enough plot to make interesting and a little twist to wrap the whole story. The premise is mainly family and how much you hate them is how much you love them.
I have watch the City of Uprising Sun where Lee Jung Jae was bullied by Lee Beom-soo and now this movie came after wards with the roles reversed.
This story look into the journey of two brothers trying to connect after the death of their father; both don't share the same mother. Sang-woo (Lee Jung-jae) is the older brother and having to look after his younger brother, Bong-ku (Lee Beom-soo) who suffer from a disease where he's aging fast (sorry, can't recalled the medical term).
They love-hate relationship is touching and funny at the same time. Both actors really shine with their acting.
The story has just enough plot to make interesting and a little twist to wrap the whole story. The premise is mainly family and how much you hate them is how much you love them.
Warm cinematography and an inviting production design ultimately servicing a thoroughly constructed central relationship
BrianThibodeau1 September 2004
OH! BROTHERS (2003) Directed by Kim Yong-hwa. The number 6 box office charter of 2003, this is an odd, needlessly complicated tale of a debt collector/blackmail photographer/missing person finder Sang Woo (Lee Jung-jae) learning upon his father's death that he has a half-brother - mentally deficient man-child Bong-ku (Lee Beom-su) - whose mother, if he can find her, will be legally forced to absolve him of his father's hefty debt. Not surprisingly, Sang-woo discovers Bong-ku's creepy affectations and appearance (at one point he's dressed up like the killer doll Chucky in a dream sequence), make him the ideal 'muscle' to have on the job, particularly when a sleazy cop forces Sang-woo to get staged adultery photos of the police superintendent in order to expand the jurisdiction of his extortion program.
There's also a subplot that sees the pair trying to unite a deaf woman, at the behest of her estranged sister, with their dying father and which mirrors much of the boys situation and allows for plenty of tears. Lee Beom-su's performance as Bong-ku, written as the comedic centerpiece of the film, is largely played as a grown man who ACTS like a precocious ass rather than a grown man with a mental age of 12, thus undermining much of the pathos the filmmakers try to wring from his relationship with Sang-woo.
Technical production is superb, with warm cinematography and an inviting production design ultimately servicing a thoroughly constructed central relationship that seems designed to feature as many piano-backed scenes of teary catharsis between sensitive new age Korean males. Moderate, but occasionally serious head slapping rates this a 4 on the Korean Cranial Abuse Scale. The overall movie rates a 4 as well.
There's also a subplot that sees the pair trying to unite a deaf woman, at the behest of her estranged sister, with their dying father and which mirrors much of the boys situation and allows for plenty of tears. Lee Beom-su's performance as Bong-ku, written as the comedic centerpiece of the film, is largely played as a grown man who ACTS like a precocious ass rather than a grown man with a mental age of 12, thus undermining much of the pathos the filmmakers try to wring from his relationship with Sang-woo.
Technical production is superb, with warm cinematography and an inviting production design ultimately servicing a thoroughly constructed central relationship that seems designed to feature as many piano-backed scenes of teary catharsis between sensitive new age Korean males. Moderate, but occasionally serious head slapping rates this a 4 on the Korean Cranial Abuse Scale. The overall movie rates a 4 as well.
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