TAZZA: ONE EYED JACK Review: A Brutalizing Allegory On Learning From Your Mistakes And Playing Your Cards Perfectly
A collective world of cardsharps, lonesharks, gangsters and fools looking to win at all costs, Tazza is a multimedia franchise that has certainly earned its place in history. That accolade now shares space with number three on the feature film end of things with Tazza: One Eyed Jack from director Kwon Oh-kwang, offsetting another multilayered crime tale where survival, much like deception, is the name of the game. A cornered man hangs atop from the ledge of a building before a gang of shadowy men step to his feet, seconds before he falls to his death. Fast forward to twenty years later – present day – where Do Il-chul (Park Jung-min), a man with a worthwhile knack for reading others in a game of cards, lives with his mother who also runs a humble diner. A chance meeting with a mysterious woman, an accident with a bellicose man and a […]
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