It's brutal, has some fighting scenes, but it's in no way an action-packed movie.

Drama and character development makes the first half of the movie, with a rather slow plot progression to familiarize the audience with the characters. During this one hour there is also a glimpse of the workings of Korean underworld, however this portrayal seems to needlessly complicate the threads as they dismissed it midway for the "ultimate badguy".

The plot progresses in much better pace in the last one hour. But all the drama and character development never got built up to its full potential, even with our main character Cha Tae-sik and the girl So-mi. The actors are all great, including the gritty police officers, but their screen time doesn't amount to meaningful relationships among them. This is a missed opportunity especially between Tae-sik and So-mi. The often dramatic music doesn't help either.

The fight scenes are probably one of the better parts of the movie however most of the fights are done off-screen. Only after it reaches the second hour more action starts to show, but the shaky cam doesn't let much thrill to be experienced. The choreography is slick but the subpar camera works leaves me wanting for more.

To all the John Wick fans out there, I give you The Man From Nowhere which is just the perfect Action Lover and Thriller Lovers film as it is just full of great acting, story telling and action set pieces. The story revolves around a man who genuinely has lost everything in life and feels he no longer matters, but a little girl gives him back some of that life when he starts to take care of her a bit as the build supervisor and then everything goes wrong again and he has to save this little girl and her mother.

Let me start off with Won Bin (Cha Tae-Sik aka Nowhere) who gives such an amazing performance as he doesn't speak much during the film but his expressions and actions during the film speaks louder than any words and when he does talk it always matters, also Kim Sae-ron (Jeong So-mi) who is the little girl and she gives such an amazing performance as I believe this little girl who has a troubled life and lives in fear unfortunately due to the world she has been put in. Lastly, Thanayong Wongtrakul (Ramrowan) who is just the perfect equal for Nowhere but at the same time is basically the bad guy with a heart and I just hope to see all of these actors in more films.

I think I love everything about this film and you can see how it helped to inspire movies like John Wick and a lot of other hollywood films, as it shows how to do action right but also how to do story telling right at the same time. Please watch this film, it was difficult to track down but soooooo worth it.

Just remember SUBS OVER DUBS!!!!!!!!!!!!