RED Quickie: The Traffickers

The Traffickers (literally, 'the Conspirators') is a nice little thriller about people doing very, very bad things. The interesting (or irritating, depending on your point of view) thing about the film is, you try to figure out what these evil things mean. Im Chang-jung plays a man who has turned his back on a lucrative but morally bankrupt organ smuggling business. He is lured back to doing one last job because, as it turns out, his new lady love is the client.

What at first seems like a race against time as the smugglers get their organs turns into a ridiculously complicated mess that leaves you switching your sympathies multiple times in the last half of the film. The twist that sets it all up reaches a level where your suspension of disbelief is strained to the limit. Mix it in with some gruesome violence and we have a film that is not for everybody. Whether it is rewarding or not depends on how you take the twists and turns this film will take you. Your mileage may vary.