A captivating telling of the days leading upto the Assassination of President Park Chung-hee. The tense nature between South Korea's relations with America at the time, the human rights violations and subsuquent riots that followed. And by all means, this is said to be fairly accurate as a historical piece too.

Lee Byung-hun's acting in this film was truely outstanding from start to finish. The range in subtle emotion he elictied in the film was impressive. He captured the eventual assasinnation really well. Changing from calm to slowly more angst as his character (Kim Gyu-pyeong, a character based upon Kim Jae-gyu, the real life assassinator of President Park) makes the decision to change Korea forever.