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- South China Morning Post
Hi-Five movie review: Korean superhero fantasy with Yoo Ah-in fails to meet its potential
2/5 stars
Long-delayed superhero fantasy Hi-Five finally sees the light of day, almost four years after wrapping principal photography. The film was put on hold indefinitely when one of its stars, Yoo Ah-in, became embroiled in a drug scandal, for which he subsequently
served a one-year prison sentence
In Hi-Five, five strangers – played by Yoo, Lee Jae-in, Ahn Jae-hong, Ra Mi-ran and Kim Hee-won – who all received new organs from the same anonymous donor, unite upon discovering they have developed superpowers in the wake of their surgery.
K-pop star Park Jin-young, currently also seen in the Netflix K-drama series
Our Unwritten Seoul , plays their similarly enhanced adversary.
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Hi-Five's main problem is that it struggles to harness any real power from its promising premise.
