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.
8 March 1944, South Korea
18 October 1951, South Korea
December 30, 2013
An entertaining, well-cast action thriller, but it grows increasingly mindless, pedestrian, contrived and convoluted.December 05, 2013
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.December 05, 2013
The filmmakers are committed to tragic romanticism. If they muster few thrills and no surprises, at least they don't stoop to a happy ending.December 06, 2013
Lots of family tragedy, saccharine love, and high-impact tae kwon do.December 03, 2013
When Commitment isn't a perfectly forgettable action film, it's either an oil-thin melodrama or a charbroiled treat for meatheads.December 04, 2013
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.December 07, 2013
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 demographicDecember 05, 2013
For all the shooting, knifing and nattering about sleeper cells, the film feels weirdly static and terminally tired.March 13, 2014
Commitment may not be the next big K-cinema import, but it's a fine display of solid craftsmanship.