TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

greyfire I put off watching this film for a while. I heard it was very different from other movies in the same genre and I thought that meant it was going to be pretentious. But I was wrong. Mother is one of the best crime thrillers I've ever seen. At the beginning of the film, the main character, Do-joon is run over by a car. He and his supposed friend, Jin-tae seek revenge. This scene serves to demonstrate the personality of our main character and his relationship with his friend. We learn that Do-joon is mentally retarded or at least slow in the head with a bad memory. Soon after this, Jin-tae invites him for a drink. His friend fails to show up. Then our main character is accused of murdering a girl he was seen following the night before the murder. The police coerce a confession out of him. His overprotective mother doesn't believe he's guilty. She does whatever she can to help her son. First, she struggles to obtain enough money for a lawyer. When he proves incompetent, she begins her own investigation. She takes part in acts that range from questionable to heinous. She's willing to do anything to save her son, all the while being chastised and running into other kinds of problems. As the film progresses, you learn more about the kind of person mother is. And you discover things about her as well as other characters that may surprise you.The film follows a route you're probably not used to. This will surprise some, upset others, but at the very least should be a refreshing crime thriller for those who think they've seen them all.

Dina Ciccone So twisted yet beautifully told murder mystery. I first came across this movie after watching the supporting actor Won Bin's action movie 'the man from nowhere'. I was so impressed by his acting in that movie that I decided to check out his other films. And I'm so glad I did cus it meant coming across this little gem of a movie. What an incredible twisted, bizarre and beautifully shot murder mystery it was. The two main performances were superb and the mother and son twisted dynamic really made this movie for me. South Korea is really at the forefront of interesting and unique cinema in the world. I look forward to more work by the genius Director Bong and also the immensely gifted Won Bin.

Robyn Nesbitt (nesfilmreviews) "Mother" is an alluring piece of work, an artful mystery that melds clever plotting with resourceful camera work, with sympathetic characters that are fascinatingly morbid. South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho follows his monster extravaganza "The Host" (2006), in firm control of his medium in a different genre, proving once again that conventions need not always confine.After a night of drinking and waiting for his long time friend, Do-joon (Won Bin), finds himself in some serious trouble. The next morning, he is accused of murdering a young woman on his way home from the bar, and he has no recollection of whether or not he did. The case has enough evidence to be closed quickly, but his mother, played by Kim Hye-ja, refuses to believe that her son could do such a thing. So she pushes forward, not accepting what the police have pieced together, and starts her own investigation to find the real killer, and free her son.The film is a labyrinthine and cleverly deceptive, and not in a way we might anticipate. Long after a conventional thriller would have its destination in plain sight, "Mother" is still penetrating our assumptions. There are twists are aplenty, and deductions achieved too easily are simply the result of contrived clues and convenient witness testimony. "Mother" delights in confounding viewer expectations. In fact, just when you think it's over, a couple more developments still remain.The film progresses with remarkable clarity, while drawing surprise and suspense from unexpected places. It's director Joon-ho Bong's unique style of old and modern approaches to filmmaking -- his stylistic and subtle ability to weave this story, and employing a witty use of dark humor throughout is what makes this film so impressive. "Mother" slowly burns its way towards revelations and depths of a character's soul that most dramatic thrillers shy away from. The most surprising aspect of "Mother" is how differently it begins, and from that, what it becomes. Unique and utterly compelling in its entirety, "Mother" concludes in a manner that solves all (or nearly all) outstanding riddles. "Mother" deftly weaves a story about mother's love into a mystery thriller that will keep you guessing every step of the way.

Kodiek This is seriously the most epic film I've ever seen in my whole life. The epicness of the film can not even be described. The son is epic. The mother is epic, the WHOLE THING is so epic!!!!!!! It is so epic I would recommend this epic film to any people who likes epic films. It is the most epic film I've ever seen. I've said this before, BUT IT'S EPIC. EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But It's really epic, and I'm not even saying this to trick you into watching a non-epic film. It's seriously an epic film. Everything about this epic film is epic. The 2 main characters are played epicly. The scene where the boy scissor kicks the officer in the back of the head is so freaking epic. Literally. Watch this epic film. 10/10 for epicness.