Gamsijadeul - 2013

In Italy I know it as "Cold eyes", one of those funny things: to transform a Korean title into an English one for the Italian public :-/
Internet tells me that the title means Surveillance, which is a reasonable title, much more than cold eyes! A good movie, I liked it enough. Well made, well acted. I read it's a remake of another movie, but I never saw that one so I can't compare them. It's the story of a group of policemen specialized in surveillance. They discover the right places to search, identify their target, follow him closely until an operative team can intervene to take them down. A girl joins the team and her code name is little-pig (well, I translate in English the Italian name I heard on tv, and she was porcellino :-p) - (Han Hyo-joo, I looked the names up on the internet).  Leader of her team is Hawk (Sol Kyung-gu); with their team they try to find a gang of robbers. Six people, plus the mastermind they call Shadow (Jung Woo-sung). On the surveillance tapes they manage to find a member of the gang. They start a search, find him, spy him and identify him and through him eventually they identify all the six members of the gang: they are taken down by an operative force team. Unfortunately the Shadow foresaw the trap and escaped. They saw him and followed him, but he escaped killing a young Detective, codename Squirrel (Lee Junho).
Little-pig was so shocked she stayed with Squirrel losing the suspect. Hawk leaves the force, while she retreats in herself, not answering his calls, until she sees Shadow again, totally by chance, and follows him, phoning Hawk and getting the team ready. At a dining place Shadow approached her, asking her why she was following him, but leaves when Hawk enters the place. He follows him now but Shadow knows him and tries to kill him, but luckily he can only injure him. This time our little-pig can't stop, they are the only two people to know Shadow's face so she must keep the surveillance. She goes on but he takes her hostage. When other policemen come to her aid, she manages to break free. He runs away but they are in pursuit. Anticipating his move, Hawk is waiting for him at the other exit of that train-tunnel. He stays there, blocking his escape. Shadow now has policemen behind him and Hawk in the front. Without Hawk he could escape again, but Hawk stands there even when he hears a train getting close. He shoots Shadow dead, and having as many lives as a cat he gets lucky again and the train changes rail right behind him. This hunt is finally over, but the team goes on with its work, and now little-pig is a more confident, prepared officer. It was a good movie, I liked it a lot. I only didn't like the falling-down-scene with the camera following them too closely, I found it only messy and distracting, not captivating at all. Beside that, I liked it. The actors were all good. Squirrel's death was sad, but I guess there had to be one to make it all more... I don't know, more realistic maybe. This Shadow was extremely dangerous and did not hesitate to kill. Before dying, however, he had the satisfaction of killing his mentor and his men. Shadow wanted out but the man forced him to take this other job costing him his life.