Quick (2011 film)
6 /10 1 Votes
Director Jo Beom-gu Release date March 2, 2012 (India) Duration | 5.8/10 IMDb Genre Action, Comedy, Thriller Music director Dalparan Country South Korea | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date July 20, 2011 (2011-07-20) (South Korea)July 29, 2011 (2011-07-29) (Baltimore) Writer Soo-jin Park (screenplay), JK Youn (screenplay), Beom-gu Cho (screenplay) Cast Yoo Seung-Mok (Lee Do-hyeong), Yoon Je-moon (Jung In-Hyuk), Kim Tae-woo (Wanatabe Junichi), Lee Min-Ki (Han Ki-Soo), Kang Ye-Won (Choon-Sim), Kim In-Kwon (Kim Myung-Sik)Similar movies Lee Min-ki movies, Korean language movies, Action movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Using bomb threats, a madman targets the former members of a motorcycle gang.
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Quick (Hangul: ; RR: Qwik) is a 2011 South Korean contemporary action comedy film.
Gi-soo, Myeong-sik and Ah-rom were members of the same notorious motorcycle gang. They enjoyed their days roaming the streets recklessly on the motorcycles. Now, Gi-soo works as a motorcycle delivery man, Myeong-sik is a motorcycle cop and Ah-rom is a pop idol singer. One day, Gi-soo has Ah-rom riding on the back of his motorcycle as he makes a delivery. To his surprise the delivery package explodes. Gi-soo's cellphone rings and he hears a voice telling him that their is another bomb planted in his helmet which Ah-rom is wearing. Gi-soo is ordered to take another delivery. If the delivery is late or he attempts to run away the helmet will explode.
Plot
Seoul, 2004. A group of bikers are joy-riding through the streets and while their leader the teenage Han Ki-su (Lee Min-ki) is tearfully berated by girlfriend Chun-shim (Kang Ye-won) for scorning her. The biker Kim Myung-shik (Kim In-kwon) is attracted to Chun-shim watches dolefully. Following some heavy traffic, Ki-su executes a perfect bike jump over it.
Six years later Ki-su is working as a bike messenger. After delivering a package to an office, the building blows up just after he leaves. Ki-su doesnt think his package was connected to the blast. Ki-su is later asked to drive Ah-rom, the lead vocalist of girl group OK Girls, to a televised stadium concert that she is late for. To his surprise, he finds that she is actually Chun-shim who is still angry at how she was treated years earlier. He offer her his helmet, unaware that its been switched for an identical one rigged with an explosive. Ki-su receives a phone call and is told to deliver three packages already stowed in his bike, with a 30-minute delivery time for each package. If they exceed the time limit or if Chun-shim tries to take off the helmet then it will explode. Meanwhile the police, led by Detective Seo (Ko Chang-seok) and NPCC team leader Kim (Ju Jin-mo) examine the CCTV tape in the building that exploded and believe that Ki-su is potentially the bomber. Ki-su delivers Chun-shim to the concert just in time where she performs in the helmet. The two of them start to make the deliveries, while being hunted by the police and trying to solve figure out who is responsible for the bombings while driving between Seoul and Incheon.
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Reception
The film ranked third and grossed over ?4 billion in its first week of release. and grossed a total over ?22 billion after seven weeks of screening.
Film Business Asia gave the film a seven out of ten rating, comparing it to the action comedy films produced by Luc Besson, opining that it was an "action movie thats fast, furious and (thankfully) funny".
References
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