Commitment

Lots of family tragedy, saccharine love, and high-impact tae kwon do.

For all the shooting, knifing and nattering about sleeper cells, the film feels weirdly static and terminally tired.

In this expansive, even elegant movie, Myung-hoon turns from assassin to knight-errant in pursuit of a virtue he barely has time to understand. His rapid evolution is nothing short of moving.

The filmmakers are committed to tragic romanticism. If they muster few thrills and no surprises, at least they don't stoop to a happy ending.

The story of an undercover spy caught in a web of intrigue, this South Korean import slams North Korean ruthlessness and treachery via a tale that's derivative and-in both dramatic and political terms-frustratingly shallow.

When Commitment isn't a perfectly forgettable action film, it's either an oil-thin melodrama or a charbroiled treat for meatheads.

Commitment may not be the next big K-cinema import, but it's a fine display of solid craftsmanship.

An entertaining, well-cast action thriller, but it grows increasingly mindless, pedestrian, contrived and convoluted.

The film features a variety of kinetic and well choreographed action sequences but is strictly an exercise in style over substance.

Enjoyable, if slightly tepid teenage spy actioner and a must-see for fans of KPop star T.O.P of Big Bang, Commitment's mix of gunplay and hand-to-hand combat is harder and bloodier than one might reckon for the film's expected demographic