based on the true story of Aaron Bates, the film follows a korean-american adoptee who travels back to korea in hopes of finding his birth parents. he does find his father who has been in jail for murder and sitting on death row. the adoptee is played by Daniel Henney, who is actually half korean and half white. honestly i was kind of reluctant to believe that he could act but this role i think hits some common chords for Henney. all in all he doesn't do a bad job for a former model turned actor. there is one monologue towards the end of the movie that Henney is given and i thought he lost me there. too often i felt like his emotions were limited. anyways moving on from the Henney bashing...i thought the saving point of the movie was Kim Young Cheol (김영철) who plays the birth father. his character has a crippled leg which he did a great job of selling. reminded me of Kevin Spacey's crippled walk in The Usual Suspects. his character is forced to be reminded of his past and has no other choice but to be confronted with his sins. he does a pretty good job of making the audience feel for him, which was the root of controversy saying that the film glorified the life of a murderer. it depends on your perspective but regardless it does make for an interesting plot. all in all, thought the film could have been stronger towards the end and the climax was not very climatic.
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