basil-grimes From the very start to the end this is yet another example of the Korean way of making action movies.On one hand, a lot of bloodshed and fighting (not to be misunderstood, the action moments are very well chosen) and on the other hand touching moments and a gentle exploration of the characters. For me this is quite an interesting recipe and a breath of fresh air from the clichés of the "classical" action movies.Enough generalizing. Just thing about it: how would you live, if every morning you would punch your card and than head into an office in which you would get an assassination mission. Business as usual, right ? Well, have you thought about it ? Good. Now let's guess. What would a man with no family and the desire to head another way. A man who had his taste of blood, who satisfied his inner need for violence. Wouldn't he try to make a connection with the real, human world ? Wouldn't he try to befriend someone trustworthy ? Well, if you do want answers to these questions, watch this VERY interesting movie. One more thing. Hope you're not a vegetarian...

kosmasp The only thing these Company Men have in common with the other Company Men (movie with Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones and more), is that they're struggling to survive after they are fired. On a more serious note though: This is a really good action drama, with a central performance that is understated and played very small.Of course you have to wait quit a bit for action pieces, after an initial amazing stung at the beginning of the movie. But while it is foreseeable most of the times, it does deliver on everything it promises. There is over dramatization a few times, but you'll either accept it as part of the movie or just hate it happening. Depends on your own view.

nick fredrikson 5.8 ?! Are you kidding me ? I bet the ratings were given by women disappointed in the love-line of the story.I in the contrary was superbly entertained : Excellent cinematography , acting , action , sound and a story , which can be labeled as unique in the ocean of a pro-killer falls in love-wants retirement-pisses-his-employers-off-movies. To my great relief the focus wasn't placed on love but on THE company , something I never saw before. A corporation masked as yet another unit of the ,,normal '' business world. Bureaucracy , business meetings and boring office work ? HEll NO! Suits , guns and office women in tight skirts with the ability to kill you under the blink of an eye , coworkers aka. a deadly wolfspack ; ready to turn the back on you if the money is right ? H-E-L-L Y-E-A-H ! ! ! And this exact atmosphere makes this film very enjoyable. But the main highlight is the charismatic Ji-Sub So as the silent killer ,managing to draw compassion in spite being a murderer-for-money.A Company Man is a neat movie , being able the fulfill its main objective of delivering a good piece of cinema and solid entertainment , but it lacks that little ,, something '' to make it memorable forever.( But fans of heroic bloodshed can't skip it!)

cremea SPOILERS!A Company Man is 2012 Korean movie about a contract killer operating in a modern day corporate structure. It is an action drama.The film stars So Ji-sub as Hyung-do. Hyung-do is white collar worker employed at the corporate office of a metal works company. He's a loyal mid-management type who's married to his job, and, he goes about his daily 9-5 routine as so many other people do in this world. He also happens to be a professional assassin, as is, apparently, everyone else at the entire office he works at. This a legit company with typical business concerns, but they also kill people. There are several dozen people or so that work for this company, and everybody working here is well aware of the company's dual purpose. From the chairman on down to the receptionist at the front desk, everybody has their part to play in making sure the company is a success on both fronts.There must be a lot of people that need to be killed in Korea, in order for a corporation such as this to have sprung up to outsource all the contract killing work that's seemingly available. While the existence of such a company as this is hard to fathom, it does provide for somewhat of an interesting dynamic here; office politics, personal employee interactions, and the like, are on display (just as within any small to mid size company work environment the world over). There's board meetings, company retreats, promotions vied for, office parties, etc…it's one big happy work/family that seems perfectly content with what they're doing. It's an odd and intriguing premise to watch play out, a premise which posits a work environment which can sort of be summarized as: "Hey, Good job everyone on getting that shipment of girders out to Japan on schedule… Let's all welcome back Mrs. Kim from maternity leave…Mr. So, you're late for knife fighting practice…Project team B, we need that cost analysis on the Jeju project asap…Today is Ms. Bae's birthday party…Now, everyone be on time tomorrow, cause we have lots of people to kill this week, etc…"…I'm generalizing the atmosphere at play here, but, you get the idea.Hyung-do is a rising star in the company, and its best assassin, He's tiring of the corporate grind involved with his job however, and he's also becoming more & more sentimental with the people he's continually charged with killing off. Eventually, he wants to "retire" from the business…but, as one would imagine, this is a company that is somewhat difficult to extricate one's self from on their own terms.This film devotes the middle hour or so of its story to the retiring hit-man looking after the young protégé he was supposed to eliminate, and subsequently romancing and falling in love with his mom along the way. I'm game for a good romance story intermixed with my action, but the love angle here is poorly executed…it drags along & is too underwritten for you to engage yourselves into the romantic relationship between the hit-man & mother. There's also some nonsense back story angle about how the mother was a former pop star/singer in her youth, and the hit-man was once the young love/star struck dork who delivered meals to her…this "sub" story was told via various flashbacks from the past, and it's all terribly unnecessary to the romantic story in the present…Spend some money on a second unit writing team will you?Eventually, you arrive to the climax of the story…then, revenge & bloodshed ensue!There are a few decent action set pieces here and there, but, this is not a balls to the wall action film by any means, and, those action scenes are few and far between. That's not really the problem though…It's mostly undermined by its weakly written retirement/romantic story (which should have been a highlight, instead of a detriment). My lasting impression of this film was that it was OK, but, it was also very disjointed and muddled down a bit by its lackluster screen writing.Bottom Line: 6 to 7 range…It's a 6 star film IMO …Not mandatory…Watchable though.