After the spying mission of his father failed, North Korean boy Ri Myung-hoon and his sister Ri Hye-in are sent to a labor prison. Myung-hoon volunteers to become a spy to protect his sister and infiltrate South Korea as a juvenile detective. While at school as a regular student in South Korea, he met a girl also named Hye-in and rescues her when she is attacked. South Korean Intelligence detect Myung-hoons behavior and start tracing him while his government sent an assistant to assassinate him.
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.
NYC Movie Guru
December 30, 2013
An entertaining, well-cast action thriller, but it grows increasingly mindless, pedestrian, contrived and convoluted.
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.
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
