Reviews

Realistic war scenes are blended with surreal elements which gives a taste of bloody fairy tale rather than an action movie. You will have sad moments, also funny moments and lots of forced emotional scenes.

What bugs me most, in multiples of scenes, you sense a presence of some kind of omnipotent entity which interferes with lives of characters and changes natural flow of events, because of that, in the end you expect some kind of peaceful resolution but alas, war is inevitable. Unlike earlier, this time they have something to live for, something to fight for, also unlike earlier they can choose their side, and they embraced their death bravely.

It's message is just a clichè: Doesn't matter which side we are on, we are alike and war is bad.

I didn't like the ending. It just doesn't make sense. US wasted several soldiers over one. In the air while parachuting. Also villagers could turn the lights off or go off somewhere to escape bombardment. For me, it is a far fetched drama.

I think Korean movies have bad taste of choosing actors for westerner roles. Maybe good ones are expensive to get.

While I was watching this movie I wondered why is everybody playing dumb, the pimp, cops, victims. The whole movie relies heavily on chance and I always hate when a twist or closure is achieved by a mere coincidence. Twists by chance in this movie are too many to count.

"no signal" on the mobile is a pure Hollywood clichè.

You just don't take refuge in a shop when you break loose from a psychotic killer, especially not after you received a beating to the head with a hammer. And he runs out of cigarettes and shopkeeper hands him a hammer, that is not irony, that is bad idea.

Let loose a self-confessed murderer of 12 people and have him followed by only two cops, one was incompetent and the other is too naive, he disappeared before her eyes. Good thing for her, otherwise she would be dead too.

Also if you are going to save a life or catch a criminal you don't run across the whole city, just take a cab.

Another thing that bugs me, incompetent cops, they never interrogate the suspect properly , all we see lots of blubbering and shouting and some occasional pissing contest. This is a crime movie but we don't see cops following any clues such as missing people, mobile signals, plate numbers all we see a pimp sniffing around the city and pimp's guy, also dumb, with lots of keys looking for the right gate in a large area.

If you ask me, the real trouble is the poster of the movie. You can always speculate if it has some deeper meaning but for me, it's completely awful and unintelligible and uninviting.

I like Korean movies but this movie didn't satisfy me least a bit.