Fridae

We know that fans of K-stars Jeon Ji-Hyun (My Sassy Girl)
and Jeong Woo-Sung (A Moment To Remember) will flock to
this action-romance set in the Netherlands. But if you are no K-fan,
we advise you to skip this.

This film starts from the perspective of a lovely Korean painter
(Jeon Ji-Hyun) in the Netherlands who dreams of falling in love.
One day, she meets a handsome Korean man (Lee Sung-Jae) who leaves
behind a pot of daisies. The film then switches to his perspective.
Lee turns out to be an Interpol officer monitoring the drug trafficking
between Europe and Asia.

During a gun fight, he passes out while chasing the shooter. The
film now starts to tell the story from the shooter's (Jeong Woo-Sung)
perspective. He is actually a contract killer who grows daisies
on his barge. A love triangle eventually emerges from the messy
plot.

Directed by Hong Kong's Andrew Lau (of Infernal Affairs
fame), the film is too structurally ambitious for its own good.
The use of multiple perspectives is perhaps as needless as setting
the story in the Netherlands. One suspects the exotic locations
and complex narrative structure were used to disguise the fact that
the script and direction are not terribly engaging. One also wonders
why Andrew was asked to direct it, since the cast is made up of
Koreans and there is no shortage of good Korean directors out there.