Say Yes
Say Yes
| 16 August 2001 (USA)
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Young married couple Yoon-hee and Jung-hyun go on a road trip, and along the way they pick up a lone drifter, M. M turns out to be a violent and sadistic psychopath who terrorises the couple at every turn. After capturing Jung-hyun, Em gives him a choice: submit to torture or allow Em to kill Yoon-hee.

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Cubussoli

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

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Stometer

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

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Steineded

How sad is this?

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Fatma Suarez

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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craigjpay-146-379244

South Korean thrillers are amazing, that much is fact. From the hammer swinging, octopus chomping lunacy of 'Oldboy' to the obscenely violent and visceral 'I Saw the devil', they've been kicking the pampered backside of Hollywood's cookie cutter film industry for a good decade now. Sadly, the success of these movies (along with 'The Chaser', 'The Host', 'The Yellow sea' and more) has, in a way, conspired to make 'Say yes' a slightly disappointing movie in comparison.To celebrate their anniversary, Jeong-Hyun takes wife Yun-Hie on a romantic road trip along the coast, however it's not long into their journey that the happy couple encounter the mysterious (and outwardly hostile) Em, when they back into him with their car. Using this as excuse to demand a lift to the next town, Em begins to show a dark side, openly threatening the couple, who soon realize that their lives could well depend on getting as far away from this man as possible. Unfortunately for them, Em has a sadistic game in mind and has chosen them to play it with.If all of this sounds familiar, then you, like me, have no doubt seen 'The Hitcher', the seminal psycho hitchhiker flick where a magnificently evil Rutger Hauer takes a young traveler on a horrific and unforgettable journey into hell (figuratively speaking). This film shares a LOT of DNA with 'The Hitcher', from small details like the psycho's trench coat, to larger details, such as the entire plot, a couple of set pieces and much of the character Hauer so skillfully created in his movie. That's not to say that Joong-Hoon Park is not good as Em, he's excellent, genuinely creepy, intimidating and clearly mad as a box of dog dicks (this is one area where he manages to separate his character from Hauer's, who is SO evil that it seems as if he might be the devil himself, Em, on the other hand, is drawn as simply being utterly insane), there are just too many tics and line deliveries that seem a little TOO familiar. Putting the possible plagiarism to one side, there is plenty to recommended about 'Say yes'. Both of the other two performances in this three-hander are excellent, Ju-Hyuk Kim in particular, as protective and devoted husband Jeong-Hymn, is not afraid to play his character as fairly unsympathetic for a good portion of the film, ignoring his wife's advice and actually engaging in this competition with Em, at least until the full scope of his plan (and his insanity) become clear to him. Sang- Mi Choo acquits herself very well too, despite a severely underwritten role, her character really only serving to keep the stakes high for the increasingly desperate Jeong-Hyun.Director Sung-Hong Kim manages to maintain an air of tension throughout the film right up until the final 40 minutes, where a series of false endings kill the pace somewhat. Thankfully everything comes back together during the actual finale, it's grisly, shocking, intense, everything I expect from a Korean thriller, and makes me wish that the rest of the movie, which never really rises above being just 'good', could match it.'Say yes' is a very watchable thriller, with fine performances, it's just a little derivative and a little too much like an American production when compared to other Korean efforts with stronger identities and a little more imagination.

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Neo

I have seen many good Korean Movies including thrillers and movies with darker overtone, but this one sucks. The director seems to be a sadist, who happened to get someone to produce some junk. The movie lacks any sort of entertainment value and is not even a thriller. I can't believe someone really made such a movie. Even though acting is OK, the story line and the feeling it leaves is awful.I am sure, I am not going to see any movies of this director. No sense of movie making, and utter disappointment in having thriller moments. All this has is showing scenes with psychopath wasting the reels with badly shot scenes and showing more blood and violence thinking that makes it thrilling. Very disappointing movie and I strongly recommend skipping all the movies of this sort.

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sain11

Say Yes is a taut, slick, thriller that deserves to be seen. Well made, well acted, well directed. It is fast paced, twisted and sick, as a good thriller should be.This is a film that balances nicely between gritty realism, and heightened-realism, without falling into the realms of "hollywood-realism". For example, there are car chases and crashes, but nothing explodes, and the cars stay crashed! While the story of a couple picking up a hitcher who then terrorises them has obviously been done before, this movie has enough originality and realism to make the simple premise fresh and entertaining.There are some quite gruesome and bloody moments to keep you squirming, and plenty of tension. This is a great little thriller and well worth a watch.

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jhs39

This technically well made but highly sadistic thriller is basically an inferior Korean remake of The Hitcher with a bit of Seven thrown in. While the film is different enough from The Hitcher to not qualify as a remake, there's no doubt at all that the filmmakers here saw the 1980's Rutger Hauer film--there are two scenes, one in a restaurant where the psycho tries to taunt the hero into killing him, in The Hitcher with a gun and this film with a knife, and a second where the hero falls asleep in a police station only to wake up and find the cops murdered--that are too similar to be a coincidence. As dark as the American film was The Hitcher was still entertaining because the movie moved quickly and had numerous well-directed action set-pieces. Say Yes, in contrast, is largely lacking in action besides the sadistic torture scenes late in the film.

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