Time Renegades (2016) Siganitalja (original title) : An engaging thriller.
Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Director: Jae-young Kwak
Writer: Jeong-un Oh
Stars: Soo-jung Lim, Jung-suk Jo, Jin-wook Lee |
Time Renegades director by the hit maker Kwak Jae-yong released in 2016 is a high concept romantic thriller about two men from different timelines of 30 years apart who must work together to save the life of the women they love.
Storyline: In 2015, while chasing a suspect, rookie detective Gun-woo is shot and loses consciousness. At the same time back in 1983, high school teacher Ji-hwan is stabbed by a pickpocket. Both suffer life threatening injuries. Two men who live 30 years apart are taken to the same hospital, on the same day. Both their heart stops and miraculously starts again at the exact same time. As they come back from the brink of death, the two begin to see through each other’s life through their dreams. Soon realizing that the women they love are in fatal danger, the two men must team up to trace the past and change her destiny.
The basic theme of ‘Time Renegades’ is similar to the Korean movies like ‘Il Mare’ or ‘Ditto’. The difference is that while the later were of Fantasy-Romantic genre, Time Renegades is more of a Crime-Romantic-Thriller with fantasy element. Director Kwak Jae-yong, well famous for directing super hit romantic movies like My Sassy Girl, The Classic and Windstruck steps into thriller forte for the first time in his career. The director succeeded in bringing out a fast paced thriller that engages the audience from start to end. The screenplay by Jeong-un Oh creates a strong emotional foundation before setting loose on the thriller elements. With basics thus well-covered, the film flicks the high-tempo switch and introduces a gallery of intriguing supporting characters, just about all of whom could potentially be guilty of heinous crimes in the past or about to commit them in the near-future. Time travelling stories are always complicated when it comes to justifying itself well these are the places where Time Renegades falls on some shortcomings, Thanks to the razor-sharp editing and top-shelf visual effects seamlessly uniting past and present the film never fails entertain the audience throughout.
Overall Time Renegades is an excellent treat for the lovers of thriller genre.
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