Most critics land on mild approval: two positive, five mixed, none negative, and the spread is narrow. The praise clusters on the action. The fight sequences, and one knife fight in particular, are described as kinetic, well shot and tightly paced, with Lee Jeong-beom credited for keeping them tense. Won Bin’s central performance is the other point of agreement; several reviews call it commanding, and more than one singles out his bond with the child, So-mi, as the part of the film that holds.
The reservations cluster on the story. Nearly every review calls the plot familiar or predictable, and the melodrama is noted more than once. Variety finds the violence excessive enough to limit the film’s appeal, and Den of Geek goes furthest, calling it lacklustre and short on excitement despite the well-delivered action. Two of the seven reviews could not be fully read, so the consensus rests on the five whose verdicts are clear.