From the moment he appears on screen, you just know that actor Yoo Hae-jin is going to be the killer of Fatal Intuition. There's something sinister about the way he interacts with the young girl (Ryu Hye-young) who hangs out in his pharmacy and then he's got the right sneakers and the right type of head twitch. How could he not be the one? And who cares? Yoon Joon-Hyeong's thriller isn't that concerned with keeping us ignorant about who did it. This movie's more about whether the latest victim's older brother (Joo Won) is going to get some form of justice, either via an incompentent cop or with the help of a neuorotic psychic (Lee Yoo-young). But if you've already figured out who the killer is, you probably can predict the ending in advance too.
Don't get me wrong. Fatal Intuition isn't a slog. There's a kind of tension that inhabits this movie because you're not sure who'll die next. And you know it's going to be someone. And then someone else. Everyone's a possible victim: the simpleton (Lee Joon-hyuk) who steal young women's panties, the old guy (Son Sung-chan) getting a haircut at the senior center, the businesswoman (Son Ji-na) who hangs out with the local guys... And in a small town that's clearly in the midst of hard times, you suspect that murders aren't so easily solved. Unless you point a finger at someone new in town. And in this case, you can and you can't. No one wants to think that nice unlicensed pharmacist is evil!
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