| Tube | |
|---|---|
| Hangul | 튜브 |
| RR | Tubeu |
| MR | T‘yubŭ |
| Directed by | Baek Woon-hak |
| Produced by | Lee Chang-woo Seo Gyeong-seok |
| Written by | Baek Woon-hak Byeon Weon-mi Kim Jeong-min Kim Min-ju |
| Starring | Kim Seok-hun Bae Du-na Park Sang-min Son Byeong-ho Gweon Oh-jung |
| Music by | Hwang Sang-jun |
| Cinematography | Yun Hong-shik |
| Editing by | Kim Mi-yeong Park Gok-ji |
| Release date(s) | June 5, 2003 |
| Running time | 112 min. |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
Tube (튜브 Tubeu) is a 2003 South Korean action thriller film directed by Baek Woon-hak. The film features police officer Jay (Kim Seok-hun) who is a subway police officer who spends his days reminiscing over his lost lover. The pickpocket Kay (Bae Du-na) becomes infatuated with Jay and tips him off about the government assassin Bishop (Park Sang-min) hijacking a subway car. Both Jay and Kay find themselves in the target car when the Bishop makes his move.[1]
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The United States release of Tube was handled by Silver Nitrate Releasings.[2]
Kevin Thomas of The Los Angeles Times wrote that the film"means to compete with razzle-dazzle Hollywood action thrillers, and at least on a technical level succeeds, but elliptical, hard-to-follow plotting compounded by inadequate and banal subtitles flatten the film's thrills" and also that "On visual — and visceral — levels, "Tube" works like gangbusters".[3] Wade Major of Boxoffice magazine gave the film a rating of three and a half stars out of five, and wrote that and described the film as a "John Woo-style cross between "Speed," "Die Hard".[2]