Tube 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.

Reception

The United States release of Tube was handled by Silver Nitrate Releasings.

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". Wade Major of Boxoffice

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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

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-style cross between "Speed," "Die Hard

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