Interestingly, Yoon plays the hosts when the amnesiac takes up residence in their bodies, while different actors portray them at other times. All the hosts seem to be connected to the criminal underworld – and the noirish Seoul setting provides plenty of glass and mirrors for him to cop a look at his new reflections. After one switcheroo he finds himself in the basement of a sleazy upmarket strip club in the body of a gangland boss halfway through a nasty spot of torture. Then at midnight the same thing happens – again and again, every 12 hours. Things get worse for our amnesiac: at noon he wakes up in another body. You might wonder how he can be so certain what with the memory loss but start picking at the plot holes and the entire movie falls apart in your hands. But the instant he claps his eyes on his reflection he knows one thing: he’s in someone else’s body. Bourne Identity-style, it begins with a man in an expensive designer suit (Yoon Kye-sang) waking up in a car crash: he’s got a gunshot wound and no memory of who he is.
W ho is he? What happened? After watching this high-concept body-swap thriller from South Korea, I’m still scratching my head.
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