Back in January we brought along the news that the brutal revenge thriller THE MAN FROM NOWHERE, which was incidentally the #1 box office performer in South Korea last year, was getting a proper DVD release. Now we’ve got an action-packed, blood-spraying, gun-popping new trailer to help get you excited about seeing this bad boy. A very bad boy, by the looks of it. (One review has called it TAKEN meets OLDBOY, and that doesn’t seem like a stretch based on this preview.)
The plot: An ex-special agent Tae-sik Cha’s only connection to the rest of the world is a little girl, So-mi, who lives nearby. Her mother, Hyo-jeong smuggles drugs from a drug trafficking organization and entrusts Tae-sik with the product, without letting him know. The traffickers find out about her smuggling and kidnap both Hyo-jeong and So-mi. The gang promises to release them if Tae-sik makes a delivery for them, however it is actually a larger plot to eliminate a rival drug ring leader. When Hyo-jeong’s disemboweled body is discovered, Tae-sik realizes that So-mi’s life may also be in danger. Tae-sik becomes enraged at the prospect that So-mi may already be dead and prepares for a battle, putting his own life at risk.
Watch the trailer below and try to convince me it hasn’t kicked your ass all the way in. After that, if you’re so inclined, you can order the DVD HERE or the Blu-ray HERE.
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