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The Thieves

Released Oct 12, 2012 2h 16m Action Crime Drama List
71% Tomatometer 14 Reviews 71% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings
A cat burglar (Lee Jung-jae) and his gang are hired by a devious former partner (Kim Yoon-seok) to steal a $20 million diamond from a Chinese gangster's mistress. Read More Read Less
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Anton Bitel Sight & Sound it's all very slickly realised... but the sheer number of mood swings, double crosses and narrative twists eventually becomes exhausting, while making it impossible to engage with the protean players or to care much who eventually comes up diamonds. Nov 30, 2012 Full Review Steve Macfarlane Slant Magazine A dazzling heist film that can't help but come off as duly influenced by Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's trilogy, South Korea's number one box-office champ of all time is never less than clever. Rated: 2.5/4 Oct 12, 2012 Full Review Gary Goldstein Los Angeles Times "The Thieves" carves its own niche with moments of romance and stylish mayhem mixed with a more emotionally conflicted, winner-take-all sensibility than its American brethren. Rated: 3.5/5 Oct 12, 2012 Full Review Sean Axmaker Stream on Demand ... Asia’s answer to the Ocean’s films, a sleek, snappy heist movie with plenty of working parts, eccentric personalities, and convoluted plotlines complicated even more by a confusing flashback structure ... Sep 8, 2023 Full Review Jae-Ha Kim Jae-Ha Kim (Substack) A blockbuster hit in Korea, it reunites Jun Ji- Hyun and Lee Jung-Jae, who had previously shared the big screen in “Il Mare” — the 2000 film that was later remade as “The Lake House” with Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock. Rated: 2/4 Jul 31, 2023 Full Review CJ Sheu The News Lens International The heist film peaked with Choi Dong-hoon’s The Thieves (도둑들), released ten years ago this month. Dec 2, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews

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Steve C Airplane movie. Not bad. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/25/23 Full Review Dick C Choi Dong-hoon as director and co-writer with Lee Ki-cheol makes this motion picture, The Thieves, 2012 as his highest box office film... The casting is strong, including Korean actors and actresses, Kim Yoon-seok, Lee Jung-jae, Kim Hye-soo, Jun Ji-hyun and Kim Soo-hyun with excellent actors and actress, Simon Yam and Derek Tsang with Angelica Lee... Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 07/01/22 Full Review Audience Member The best Korean movie. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Between 2.5 and 3 stars. Characters are very charismatic, but plot becomes a little anarchic, or that was my impression. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member A little hard to follow initially. Watching it a second or third time made it even more enjoyable. I'll definitely watch it a fourth time! Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member There's a lot to like about this elaborate and fun heist movie from South Korea, though its screenplay and execution do lack polish at different times throughout. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A cat burglar (Lee Jung-jae) and his gang are hired by a devious former partner (Kim Yoon-seok) to steal a $20 million diamond from a Chinese gangster's mistress.
Director
Choi Dong-hoon
Producer
Ahn Suhyeon, Lee Ja-jun
Screenwriter
Lee Ki-cheol, Choi Dong-hoon
Distributor
Well Go USA Entertainment
Genre
Action, Crime, Drama
Original Language
Korean
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 12, 2012, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 12, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA)
$137.0K
Runtime
2h 16m
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