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Bones break and blood flies throughout The Man from Nowhere‘s excellently, and uniquely, choreographed battle scenes. While the film takes itself significantly, there is a playfulness to the motion sequences that generally places us, the viewers, in the midst of the motion…nearly actually. Cha Tae-sik (Won Bin) is a quiet man working a pawnshop—or, not less than, that is what he appears (John Wick did not invent this trope). Tae-sik is a former undercover agent and, when a felony group realizes it, they kidnap his younger pal and her mom as a way to power the person to run medicine for them. He doesn’t take this calmly.

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