Howling

The story and characters are well-developed from beginning to finish. More than just a serial-murder mystery, it also has some social justice components that gives the conflict a few more layers of complexity. A very moving conclusion to a clever detective-mystery.

Typical high quality Korean crime cop thriller (''typical'' in a very good sense because Korean crime thrillers are usually very good). Kept my interest from the beginning to end, a few interesting surprises. 9/10

Howling takes a somewhat unbelievable plot and runs like a wolf with it. The two detective protagonists do an exemplary job carrying the film... but the real hero of the film is the avenging wolf-dog. I must admit I was never bored during the shots of the beast running or staring out with piercing eyes. If this were an American film I'm sure Hollywood would have made a mess of the sexism subplot and turned the whole thing into some clumsy "message" movie. In this context the other detectives came off as jerks and one couldn't help but root for Eun-yeong & Sang-gil to solve the case before their colleagues. Once it was determined that the deceased were all "bad guys" it seemed a little odd that revenge wasn't even considered as a motive until later. The scene with final kill was sad and expertly done. That sealed the deal for me. Unless you dislike avenging wolf-dogs, you can't really go wrong with Howling.

Character of leading actress is so annoying. There are a lot of actor who are naturally talented, but not her. She has terrible acting. The movie has a great plot, great character, but a bad acting (For Leading actress). The Leading actor got the great acting talent anyway.

More character study than thriller, with terrific performances by Korean mainstay Song Kang-ho (Snowpiercer) and preternatural beauty Lee Na-young as detectives on the trail of a murderous dog trainer. Working amidst sexism, incompetence, and infighting among the police, Lee's rookie cop begins to identify with the true killer as the case becomes more complicated. Lyrical drama is well written and acted, as the characters struggle to understand each other and inflict pain without knowing why. Even the one committing the murders is an innocent who desires human connection. A cut above boilerplate Korean thrillers and worth seeking out.

I just watched it, and... don't know what I gonna say because its actually not good enough. Song kang ho is the reason why I watch this movie, and as usually Korea always come up with a different idea for their movie such as Howling whatever but still cannot run from their cliché policemen movie like memories of murder, chaser, secret reunion etc. That's make me frustrated. The story is about a man who died cause by a natural combustion, but after further investigation they found out that is the homicide, later then someone killed by wolf and coincidentally related to that burned man and investigation happen. Not like what I expected, their investigation just running happily, I mean no surprise at all. Lot of predictable moment, same kind of policemen from The Chaser and same kind of hero from Secret Reunion, they save our eyes by put one girl on the screen but unfortunately forget to fill in some love interest that make this movie look drain. Just curious why they always give Kangho the same character, he is a good actor but always become a policemen or crooklike man, yelling and kicking. I gave 7 because its a good movie, but maybe I watch too many korean stuff so I get used with their work thats make me demand more. Enjoy this if you like a mystery movie! Worth watching once in a lifetime then forget it.