Bones break and blood flies during The Man from Nowhere‘s excellently, and uniquely, choreographed fight scenes. While the movie takes itself seriously, there’s a playfulness to the action sequences that sometimes puts us, the viewers, in the middle of the action…almost literally. Cha Tae-sik (Won Bin) is a quiet man running a pawnshop—or, at least, that’s what he seems (John Wick didn’t invent this trope). Tae-sik is a former secret agent and, when a criminal organization realizes it, they kidnap his young friend and her mother in order to force the man to run drugs for them. He does not take this calmly.

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