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If The Fast and the Furious, Baby Driver, and Ocean’s 11 had a threesome in South Korea, Netflix’s Seoul Vibe would eventually pop out.

Directed by Moon Hyun-sung, this blockbuster action heist movie is getting excellent reviews for managing “to raise the stakes of crime-ring brutality while balancing the violence with goofball comedy, highly likeable characters, and seriously impressive driving stunts”.

That’s Mashable‘s complimentary take on the Korean Netflix original, while the film scores 80% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer and 74% for Audience Score.

The Audience Score represents the percentage of users who have rated a movie or TV show positively. The Tomatometer score, on the other hand, represents the percentage of professional critic reviews that are positive for a given film or television show.

The score is based on the opinions of hundreds of film and television critics and calculated after receiving at least five reviews.

Here’s a snippet of each of those five reviews for Seoul Vibe:

Image: Rotten Tomatoes

The official synopsis reads, “In the days leading up to the 1988 Seoul Olympics, a ragtag team of drivers and mechanics go undercover to dismantle a massive money-laundering ring.”

Hit the gas on the trailer:

MovieWeb writes that Seoul Vibe lingers “on the edge of democracy and tragedy, giving new life to history”:

With its gaudy eighties jewelry and attire, dirt car races, and shaky handheld cameras, Seoul Vibe can be summed up as a vibe. It captures the essence of an entire era through the lens of one group dismantling a money laundering scheme, tying it together with the broader historical context going on in South Korea at the time.

If there’s anything bad about this film, it is apparent that it deserves to be seen with a group of people in a big theatre and not on a streaming platform in your bedroom.

Seoul Vibe is currently streaming on Netflix.

Do what you can with what you’ve got.

[sources:rottentomatoes&mashable&movieweb]