A Bittersweet Life vs Elite Squad
Elite Squad has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 7.4/10 for A Bittersweet Life). Elite Squad is the shorter watch at 1h 55m compared with 1h 59m. A Bittersweet Life is the older of the two (2005 against 2007). Both are action, crime, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
A Bittersweet Life
Elite Squad| A Bittersweet Life | Elite Squad | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.4/10 | ★ 8.1/10 |
| Year | 2005 | 2007 |
| Length | 1h 59m | 1h 55m |
| Genres | Action, Crime, Drama | Action, Crime, Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Kim Jee-woon | José Padilha |
| Main cast | Kim Yeong-cheol, Lee Ki-young, Lee Byung-hun, Kim Roi-ha, Hwang Jung-min | Wagner Moura, Milhem Cortaz, Caio Junqueira, André Ramiro, Maria Ribeiro |
Synopsis
A Bittersweet Life
Kim Sun-woo is an enforcer and manager for a hotel owned by a cold, calculative crime boss, Kang who assigns Sun-woo to a simple errand while he is away on a business trip; to shadow his young mistress, Hee-soo, for fear that she may be cheating on him with a younger man with the mandate that he must kill them both if he discovers their affair.
Elite Squad
In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.
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