An unremarkable crime tale, one whose plot often feels more the stuff of a brash one-hour TV procedural than a two-hour feature film.

"Veteran" is amusing throughout, even if the funny scenes are more subdued or go on a beat or two longer than American viewers are used to.

It is indicative of the inner-Romantic within Ryoo to make sense of a world that still has a trace of hope: the revelation of the truth as inevitable as a peaceful peninsula and gun taekwondo in the films of Ryoo Seung-wan.

This is the heart of Korean action films; fun, breathtaking, and a pleasure to watch.