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When his son Hangyul is taken hostage by a gang of terrorists, & when
trying to free him he - as part of a SWAT-team - shoots & fatally wounds
him by accident, that leaves cop Suk (Kim Seong-woo) deeply traumatized, but he
also works harder & harder on the case, that soon takes a bizarre turn:
Near the house where the hostage situation was taking place, 5 corpses of
scientists are found, & all the corpses are wearing a trinket similar to
that Hangyul was wearing when he was shot. & what's more, soon the chief of
police is kidnapped, & he another of said trinkets is found where he was
abducted. Suk is soon joined by profiler Hee-su (Kim Yoon-jin), the daughter
of the chief of police, in his investigations, a help he doesn't much care for.
But while Suk & his team & Hee-su are shooting their way through the
city (as the kidnappers seem to have snipers everywhere & are mighty
psychotic indeed, leaving many a murdered man behind, but also dieing like
flies), the investigations seem to close in on a secret government project ,
which was undertaken by the 5 dead scientists & a certain Doctor Noh to
create clone warriors, & it seems they, under the leadership of Goliath
(Choi Min-su) have gone wild ... plus, Hee-su turns out to be only the adopted
daughter of the chief of police (who by the way is shot too), her real father
is doctor Noh of all people, & finally Suk, Hee-su & Goliath do find
Doctor Noh, who had some crazy ideas of forcing Goliath & his brother clone
David (who of course turns out to be Suk, even though the screenplay would like
to leave that open) to home in on him at a certain point in their life, &
sure as hell, Goliath kills Suk, & then wants to kill Suk & Hee-su too,
but dies in the end himself instead ... & in the end, Suk finally gives
up his plans to clone his dead son. A film that tries very hard to
stay mysterious in its futuristic whodunnit plot, but very soon ends up with
having a totally messed up story instead, with everybody suddenly being
everybody else's father like straight out of tv's Dynasty, &
many of the plottwists are just a tad to foreseeable to surprise at all (pretty
much ten minutes into the movie you can start to guess this is about cloned
warmachines taking revenge on their masters) or make little sense (why is Suk's
son abducted in the first place ?). Plus the film seems to stay incredible
detached from its characters, who, one imagines, have to undergo all kinds of
hardships (a man shooting his own son by accident, a woman losing her adoptive
father & finding out her real father is a crooked scientist, ...). However,
a series of charged shoot-outs at least keep the movie at a fast pace - even
if, with the muddled script, they are derived of any deeper meaning.
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