On a relatively small budget South Korea managed to make a war movie that is both exciting well filmed and based on a true signifcant story. All the different action sequences are very well filmed. The landing scene is exciting terrifying and very well filmed. Better than Saving Private Ryan which was so gory that the bigger picture was sacrificed and you didn't know who was being shot. The hand to hand combat in the trenches and going up the hill is very real. The cast really can act combat convincingly. The tank in the tunnel is tense. For the grand finale the escape at the beach is so much better than that terrible Dunkirk movie by far because you are emotionally invested in the characters and know them so you are rooting for them to make it. Terrifying and frustrating. No exaggerated slow motion like in Chinese War movies.
The human element is well integrated in the middle of the movie. Surprisingly moving back stories. The problem of those caught between North and South is well brought to life by the North Korean defector and his cousin. The only thing I didn't like is the self sacrifice at the end of the two on the beach. They might as well have left since it was a lost cause by then. The lovely Megan Fox does a surprisingly good job in a serious historical role of a composite war reporter voicing the underdog position of the suicide mission.
More involving and enjoyable than 1917, Saving Private Ryan and Dunkirk.
The human element is well integrated in the middle of the movie. Surprisingly moving back stories. The problem of those caught between North and South is well brought to life by the North Korean defector and his cousin. The only thing I didn't like is the self sacrifice at the end of the two on the beach. They might as well have left since it was a lost cause by then. The lovely Megan Fox does a surprisingly good job in a serious historical role of a composite war reporter voicing the underdog position of the suicide mission.
More involving and enjoyable than 1917, Saving Private Ryan and Dunkirk.