“Confidential Assignment 2: International” has reached an exciting new milestone at the Korean box office!
For the second weekend working, comedy motion film “Confidential Assignment 2: International” held best spot at the South Korean box office. And it did so with a massive 75% share of the market.
But because the Chuseok (Korean Thanksgiving) holiday retreated into the rear-view reflect numbers, each for the sequel film and the national box office, came crashing down.
“Confidential Assignment 2” stars Hyun Bin as a North Korean detective named Rim Chul Ryung and Yoo Hae Jin as a South Korean detective named Kang Jin Tae, who in the past teamed up to catch a prison in the original “Confidential Assignment” film. In the brand new sequel, the duo gets back in combination to hunt down the leader of a North Korean criminal organization that has wreaked havoc all over the arena (performed through Jin Sun Kyu), and they're joined through Kang Jin Tae’s sister-in-law (Girls’ Generation’s YoonA) and an FBI agent from the United States (Daniel Henney).
According to Variety, “Confidential Assignment 2” earned $6.89 million over the most recent Friday to Sunday duration, in keeping with knowledge from Kobis, the monitoring carrier operated through the Korean Film Council (KOFIC). That determine used to be down 57% when put next with its opening salvo of $21.0 million every week previous.
Still, since opening on Sept. 7, the film has already amassed $35.2 million. That makes it the 5th easiest grossing film of the yr to date, ahead of “Hunt” and in the back of “Dr Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.”
The film was once directed via Lee Seok-hoon and government produced through hitmaker JK Youn. It stars Hyun bin, Yoo Hai Jin, Lim Yoon-a and Daniel Henney.
It is a sequel to the 2017 hit “Confidential Assignment,” by which operatives from North and South Korea cooperate to take down a felony. The earlier identify earned $46 million from 7.82 million spectators.
Comedy, “6/45” held on to second position, however earned lower than $1 million. It scored $910,000 for a cumulative of $13.4 million since unlock on Aug. 24, 2022.
Recent holdover, “Katuri The Movie The Big City Adventure” earned $259,000 in 3rd place. The Korean-made animation has earned $949,000 after Eleven days on liberate.
“Hunt” took $156,000 in fourth position for a cumulative of $32.0 million. “Top Gun Maverick” earned $151,000 for a cumulative of $63.2 million. Previously launched in 2019, “Aladdin” earned $111,000 in 6th place for a cumulative of $78.6 million.
The weekend’s easiest positioned new unlock was “Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero” which opened in 7th with a score of $80,800 over the weekend and $117,000 over its opening 5 days.
“The Black Phone” earned $78,800 in its second weekend of unlock in Korea. That gave it a $749,000 cumulative.
“Hansan: Rising Dragon” brought up tenth place with $40,000 over the weekend and a cumulative of $53.1 million since liberate eon July 27, 2022.
“Vita Dolce,” a Korean drama about a well-liked singer who become a classical musician, additionally scored $189,000 from 8,100 price tag sales, in keeping with Kobis.
According to the South China Morning Post review, Hyun Bin and Yoo Hae-jin reprise their roles as national competitors turned crime-fighting colleagues, as they give the impression of being to spoil a North Korean drug syndicate. This day trip, the stakes are upper than ever as their manhunt goes international, and Daniel Henney’s FBI agent displays up in Seoul, hot on the heels of Jin Seon-jyu’s ruthless crime lord, who gave his crew the slip in New York.
The mismatched buddy cop film is a tried and examined staple of the action genre, and incoming director Lee (The Pirates) properly pushes the playful competitiveness and mistrust between his protagonists to the forefront, whilst letting their procedural duties take a back seat.
“The dynamic between Hyun’s stern, but devilishly handsome North Korean agent Cheol-ryung and Yoo’s schlubby family-man cop Jin-tae remains the film’s most meaningful dating. Their rekindled bromance is given an additional kick, however, through the arriving of federal agent Jack (Henney), whose model excellent looks and complicated Western appeal are even more threatening than their live-wire quarry.”
“In the action stakes, Confidential Assignment 2: International doesn’t truly push the envelope. Shoot-outs and automobile chases are strewn throughout, maximum significantly all through an crowd pleasing opening set-piece within the streets of New York, but there's a tendency to prioritise ear-splitting quantity over technical innovation.”
“Similarly, Jin Seon-jyu’s snarling dangerous man Jang fails to make much of an affect, tapping into neither the ethical ambivalence nor gratuitous sadism that has come to define Korean movie villains in recent times.”
Sources: Variety, Soompi, South China Morning Post
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