Collectors รวมกันเราฉก (2020) [พากย์ไทย บรรยายไทย]

Collectors is a new South Korean heist caper film that pays homage to tomb raiding and bank robbing classics like Indian Jones and Ocean’s 11, but brings its own unique look to the genre by placing real Korean heritage sites including ancient shrines and tombs at the center of its heists. Collectors looks and sounds the part as it aims to win audiences over with its colorful ensemble cast and exciting locations. But unlike 2012’s The Thieves, the eclectic characters in Collectors feel too confined to its very calculated script and fail to realize much life beyond the page.

 

The grave robbing phenom Dong-gu (Lee Je-hoon), who can pinpoint a treasure’s location just by tasting the soil, sends waves through underground antique and rare artifact trading circles after acquiring a rare golden buddha statue. He soon finds himself on the radar of a rich conglomerate head amassing a private collection of rare artifacts and other national treasures often acquired though black market dealings. Dong-gu is approached by his associate, an elite curator in the antique art world (Shin Hye-sun), who offers him and a team of his choosing a fortune to pull of the high-risk theft of one of Korea’s national treasures buried within an ancient tomb in the heart of Seoul. Now, Dong-gu must put together an all-star crew of robbers including the self-proclaimed Indiana Jones of Korea (Jo Woo-jin) and the dig master of the shoveling arts (Lim Won-hee) to pull of the heist of a lifetime.

From exploring the pyramids and underground tombs in the deserts of ancient Egypt through films like The Mummy (1999), to hacking through dense jungles in search of lost cities through films like Congo (1995) or Indiana Jones (1981-2008), tomb raiding and other hunts for ancient relics have always made for great adventure films. Ever since visiting Japan and learning of the mysterious megalithic burial grounds of ancient emperors and other royals called Kofun, I’ve longed for a tomb raiding adventure in Asia. Korea answered my film prayers by centering Collectors around such a topic with its own form of ancient burial mounds. Using these real national heritage sites, Collectors successfully creates a new kind of tomb raiding adventure.