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 "The Spider-Man pointing meme in a Korean action movie" is the only thing truly worth remembering from this latest Korean espionage-action drama—a film that tries so hard to be sophisticated that it ends up getting lost in the crowd. *Humint* follows Zo, an agent for Korea’s national intelligence service who gets entangled in an anti-drug and human trafficking operation in far-off Russia, where he meets Chae Seon-Hwa, a North Korean woman whom he uses to gather "Humint." Now, you’re probably wondering what that means.  Well, it’s an abbreviation for "human + intelligence"—something we discover even before the film’s title appears on screen. Honestly, upon seeing those words, for a split second I almost thought I was watching a sci-fi movie—until I remembered the actual premise, at which point the whole concept began to bore me before I’d even reached the five-minute mark. This isn’t to say I wasn’t interested in watching the film.  Director: Ryoo Seung-wa...