One good thing about money is that it can solve almost anything.
The movie started in this premise about Marco/Kang Tae-ju, a half-Korean, half-Filipino boxer who goes thru the hardship of life taking good care of his barely breathing, bedridden mother and his search for his Korean father. Clearly a loser in life, he’s called a deregatory term “mutt,” throughout the movie and once or twice as a Kopino — half Korean, half Filipino.
He gambles thru boxing then gamble his boxing winnings in the hope to pay for his mother’s life saving surgery and at the same time pay others to look for his Korean father with the hope that his missing father can give him the money for the medical bills.
Enter, the “professional” assassin Kim Seon Ho. This is Kim Seon-ho debut in the big screen. Yes, that charming Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha star who made this movie after taking off some time resulting from that certain scandal he managed to breeze through. Seon ho may not be the nominal star of this movie but he managed to steal the show with his bedimpled charm in an otherwise crime thriller that is visual and most of the time brutal.
The Childe will take you to those thrilling moments where the assasin helps Marco/Tae Ju in his bittersweet struggle to control one of Korea’s most powerful and long standing chaebol conglomerates.
The Childe is filled with exciting chases, car and on foot scenes. Its a barely-a-minute-for- it-to-become-a-two-hour-movie but watching it is not really long at all because its highly entertaining wih Kim Seon Ho’s charismatic acting. I love his character as a hitman who so love his designer clothes, overly dotes on his Mercedes, love drinking bottled Coke through a straw and wouldn’t dare dream of wetting his Italian shoes even after running our guy Marco for a long chase because it was raining. He is comically-confident with a heart, always joking, smiling, and his “interference” is quite funny, doing so only because he calls himself as “a friend.”
What really gets to me in this movie is the scene where Seon-ho does that overly charming Pinoy-speak, more like two or three sentences before the movie goes into Kill BilI mode. What a tension releasing it was for us viewers.
I was so into the movie especially when Marco first flees for his life and questionning why they are so hellbent in chasing him. I was devastated with him when he later learned why he was in South Korea.
The Childe is an unpredictable chaos.There’s madness, so many plot twists as the movie unfold and it maintain the suspense/thriller feels throughout.
Last thing, i love how Go Ara is such a bad ass bitch here.
Officially distributed in the Philippines by CreaZion Studios and Glimmer Productions, “The Childe” promises a thrilling cinematic experience that combines gripping storytelling, exceptional performances, and cultural significance. Showing in PHILIPPINE CINEMAS THIS JULY 5. I would watch this again.
