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This is a movie about movies, and (as the director states in the press kit) about "movement." "Nowhere to Hide" is influenced by the kinetic stylization of graphic novels, the dissonance between image & music found in music videos, the artful, self-conscious manipulation of the film image of a Wong Kar-wai. Add to these a wildly comic send-up of Hong Kong gun-fu movies (the principle character is Detective Woo!)and startling infusions of pop culture, and you have a roller-coaster ride of a movie that throws plot to the wind and simply enjoys its own wild inventiveness. I bought this on eBay and started watching it just to make sure it played on my dvd player. I watched it until the end. I couldn't stop watching! If you like your genres--this is, on the surface, a police procedural--well-behaved and unbent, this is not your movie. If you object to a fight scene turning into a waltz turning into slapstick shadow-play against a movie-screen-like wall, with music to match, this is not your movie. But if you're a film buff restless with how stuffy and predictable movies have become, give this a try. It's relentlessly original, brilliantly so--always reminding you you're watching a movie (there's no pretense toward "realism"), but always reminding you of the sheer joy of watching "movies" when a great director takes risks, throwing caution and convention to the wind! I haven't seen anything quite like "Nowhere to Hide." I find it the most accessible, bold and viscerally exciting film to come out of the recent Korean New Wave. Or out of anywhere, for that matter. It's a trip, and it's a trip that gets better each time you take it!Read full review