This was a decent movie. For me, it leaned toward being more of a mystery than a thriller. It held my attention. It was worth the watch.
19 Reviews
Nicely Put Together
Foutainoflife17 November 2018
a VERY GOOD MOVIE
yangyizhang200123 June 2018
Fresh attempt at a thriller with a major twist
wallchuck-6656211 March 2018
I say "fresh" in that characters exist in 4 categories (knows & tells the truth; knows the truth but lies; tells the truth without fully aware of it; unaware and dishonest), and it becomes clearer to the viewer which is which as the movie progresses.
Lots of potential plot devices were opened up at the beginning, but were never fully developed.
I expect English subtitles will be VERY hard to create for this, if at all.
Perfect plot twist
PedroPires9029 June 2021
I didn't know this was remake. If so, I would have preferred to watch the original.
About the film: it's a smart thriller with an average-to-good build-up and a magnificent plot twist. Good acting in general and very well executed.
About the film: it's a smart thriller with an average-to-good build-up and a magnificent plot twist. Good acting in general and very well executed.
Keeps the viewer interested
phd_travel1 June 2020
Warning: Spoilers
For World of the Married fans this
is a chance to see Kim Hee Ae as a spouse being cheated on. Although more from the cheating husband's pov. Kim Kang Woo plays the guilty cheating husband who tries to kill his wife. The body disappears and the mystery deepens. Quite a few twists ensue like could she be alive? Keeps the viewer interested to see what happened. There is twist that I did not anticipate that clearly explains everything. It makes sense in that is possible but it's a long long way to get the result. Only thing is because of the POV from the husband it makes one root for him. OK watch.
Is this remake of "El Cuerpo 2012" really necessary?
MovieIQTest8 July 2018
First of all, when I watched this Korean film, I didn't know it's a remake of the Spanish film, "El Cuerpo (The Body/The Corpse) 2012", but I do remember that I've seen a similar film with exactly the same scenario and storyline before. So after I searched on google.com and imdb.com, I finally found the original Spanish one. But in the meantime, the reason why that made me went back to search in my memory lane was when I watched this Korean remake, some part of it made me feel uncomfortable and uneasy to watch on. Why I didn't have the patience to watch this Korean movie so early in the stage?
Well, it's because when watching films in this genre from Korea, Japan, Taiwan and China, they always put some stupid cast or exaggerated stereotyped characters in them. There is always a sloppy attired high I.Q. senior detective or chief inspector who is always so dangerously close to be fired by his direct moronic higher-up. This guy is always untraditional, either divorced or wife died not long ago, or daughter just died from some incurable disease or accident, so he's always depressed, drunken and chain-smoking. The murderer or the killer is always either a rich and powerful guy or a lower class maniac. These two leading opponents are inevitably stereotyped and to play such roles are usually the heavy wt. popular A-list actors. Well, what I want to say here is: These two guys are necessary hide-and-seek main characters, two necessary evils. But what about the other detectives under this senior detective? Well, as always, here comes the second but the most unbearable stupid arrangement, they are just a bunch of morons, clowns or yes-men. These lower level detectives never looked like what they should look like but totally incompetent and stupid. And funny enough, they always look like high school graduates or dropouts. Too young to become plain-cloth detectives, not even qualified for the lowest entry level uniformed cops. So in this Korean film, we got two stupid, timid male detectives and a bit smarter female detective who looked more like a high schooler, yet she is a detective in this film. Those two male detectives are the usual formulaic stereotyped morons, errand boys to the leading detective. They don't have any brain cell to solve the crime but only part of the setting to enhance the smartness of the leading detective.
The night watchman in this Korean film is a dumb old fart, but he's wearing a pair of high quality leather shoes with leather soles and heels, so when he walked along the aisles to check out the weird situation, his leather heeled shoes created a "click,click,click..." sound effect to increase the tension. Well, night watchman should wear rubberized soles working shoes or boots that won't create too much noise when he checks around inside the building. The Korean director made the guy wear such shoes which created such clear and sharp "clicking" noise when he walks around is another laughable arrangement that only would appear in Asian thrillers.
Well, it's because when watching films in this genre from Korea, Japan, Taiwan and China, they always put some stupid cast or exaggerated stereotyped characters in them. There is always a sloppy attired high I.Q. senior detective or chief inspector who is always so dangerously close to be fired by his direct moronic higher-up. This guy is always untraditional, either divorced or wife died not long ago, or daughter just died from some incurable disease or accident, so he's always depressed, drunken and chain-smoking. The murderer or the killer is always either a rich and powerful guy or a lower class maniac. These two leading opponents are inevitably stereotyped and to play such roles are usually the heavy wt. popular A-list actors. Well, what I want to say here is: These two guys are necessary hide-and-seek main characters, two necessary evils. But what about the other detectives under this senior detective? Well, as always, here comes the second but the most unbearable stupid arrangement, they are just a bunch of morons, clowns or yes-men. These lower level detectives never looked like what they should look like but totally incompetent and stupid. And funny enough, they always look like high school graduates or dropouts. Too young to become plain-cloth detectives, not even qualified for the lowest entry level uniformed cops. So in this Korean film, we got two stupid, timid male detectives and a bit smarter female detective who looked more like a high schooler, yet she is a detective in this film. Those two male detectives are the usual formulaic stereotyped morons, errand boys to the leading detective. They don't have any brain cell to solve the crime but only part of the setting to enhance the smartness of the leading detective.
The night watchman in this Korean film is a dumb old fart, but he's wearing a pair of high quality leather shoes with leather soles and heels, so when he walked along the aisles to check out the weird situation, his leather heeled shoes created a "click,click,click..." sound effect to increase the tension. Well, night watchman should wear rubberized soles working shoes or boots that won't create too much noise when he checks around inside the building. The Korean director made the guy wear such shoes which created such clear and sharp "clicking" noise when he walks around is another laughable arrangement that only would appear in Asian thrillers.
El Cuerpo rip off
eventlaunch2 September 2019
Unecessary remake
degesotoii21 October 2018
FULL OF SUSPENSE!
sueharriz14 December 2018
If you love crime scene thriller, you'd enjoy this. the male character in this movie is talented, delivers his role so effectively, everytime he was shaken by new clues, he made it became so convincingly real. thumbs up!! recommended!
Remake of Spanish movie''The Body''
Misss2527 April 2021
A movie too great
phatnlq-55-89108528 April 2018
This film i recommended
pnlqsx29 April 2018
The Body 2012
kolumbija14 October 2018
Quite the Mystery Ride!
alisonc-119 July 2018
Professor Park (Kim Kang-woo) is tired of his CEO wife Yoon (Kim Hie-ae), especially after he falls in love with one of his students. He devises a way to kill Yoon and get away with it: an untraceable (and extremely fatal) poison only ever developed in his chemical lab will be the means, and making her body vanish from the forensic morgue will be his salvation because, after all, no body, no murder, right? He feels completely safe when he discovers that the police investigating the case include a newbie, a by-the-book square and a kid only interested in his Instragram feed, all led by Jung-sik (Kim Sang-kyong) a once-brilliant but now sozzled detective. Only none of what Park sees happening is what it seems....It's difficult to describe the number of layers to this murder mystery, and I wouldn't want to say anything more about the plot because that would spoil the charm of the film. South Korea has a fantastic film industry, full of extremely talented people in all aspects from acting to directing to writing to creating strangely spooky forensic labs; this particular story is a remake of a Spanish film from 2012, "The Body," but it's a thoroughly Korean film by the end. A joy to behold - but don't take your eyes off the screen or you might miss yet another twist of the tale!
Rather unnecessary
Leofwine_draca23 April 2021
Warning: Spoilers
THE VANISHED is the South Korean remake of the 2012 Spanish thriller THE BODY and watching it you wonder why they bothered. It sticks so close to the plot of the original movie that it doesn't really have an awful lot to say for itself, which is a pity. I wasn't a big fan of the original movie in the first place, finding it quite average, and so it goes here. The film is well made and acted as always, but I just found the storyline dragged out too much, and by the time of the closing twists I found the whole thing rather unbelievable.
Another twisted justice story full of deceit
sophiamarinova22 November 2022
Warning: Spoilers
The movie was for sure slow, dimly lit too. Acting is as usual good though nothing to talk home about. Had some pretty significant and at times interesting twists. Although slow, it was somewhat engaging throughout. For me, I have a strong dislike of messages that it's ok to bring justice by heavy handed deceit, unethical and inhumane behavior. A young woman sleeping her way to encourage murder is worse than an accident in my view because it's fully intentional. Walking on a dark road at night can lead to an accident for any driver God forbid! What mother would do that with her young daughter? The policeman had his fault for allowing this situation for his family. The only sympathetic character out of the four main ones here is professor Park who had retained human emotions. The wife was beyond terrible and overall he was badly used by two women neither of which had real love for him. Overall in spite of its engagement value, this is a morally corrupt twisted story.
It was good. Not extraordinarily, but just good.
aya-6319417 October 2022
So I'll do my best to give a review without spoilers.
The way they built and kept the suspense did have me completely drawn in to the story, every second of it.
Almost each scene had something worth noticing and the movie has u putting pieces together as if you were involved in the investigation too rather than just watching it.
It had little to no boring moments.
There were many possible theories at what the answer/truth could be in the story and you could only come close to what exactly happened mere minutes before it is finally revealed.
The acting was fine.
And overall the story really left me with bittersweet feelings.
The way they built and kept the suspense did have me completely drawn in to the story, every second of it.
Almost each scene had something worth noticing and the movie has u putting pieces together as if you were involved in the investigation too rather than just watching it.
It had little to no boring moments.
There were many possible theories at what the answer/truth could be in the story and you could only come close to what exactly happened mere minutes before it is finally revealed.
The acting was fine.
And overall the story really left me with bittersweet feelings.
lacks originality, still ✔ for its entertaining value .....
THEgongoozler23 December 2021
There is a major theme in Korean cultural products: the rich and powerful (specially big company's bosses) doing bad things, covering up successfully for a while, then a fearless hero/heroine comes out to break all hell loose, and the justice is done. It's a common theme in probably every country. But Koreans in particular emphasize on making this kind of "class struggle" movies/TV shows. THE VANISHED (2018) is every bit about such "wishful thinking."
Although the plot is really unconvincing, no serious flaws to be criticized on production and cast's performance. It's an acceptable weekend entertainment for Asians and non-Asians alike.
Although the plot is really unconvincing, no serious flaws to be criticized on production and cast's performance. It's an acceptable weekend entertainment for Asians and non-Asians alike.
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