Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 2:57 pm
South Korean horror film/statement about the environment.
I had heard good things so I picked it up. While I was pleasantly surprised to be entertained, there was some stupid shit.
I should point out that this movie is compared to Jaws. Uhm...no. Not even remotely fucking close. Try again. I was actually thinking more like Jaws 3 only harder to follow and with less realism.
The opening scene is pure environmental propaganda. The evil white man, one of the VERY few to appear in the film, tells the hapless South Korean to dump the toxic chemicals out because the bottles are dusty. Whatever. I'm actually more shocked they didn't get a Bush lookalike to play the evil guy.
Thankfully that ignorant scene only lasts a minute and we get to one of the best sequences I've seen in a horror film in years. The monster is revealed and death is everywhere. It's an action scene that's scary (well, supposed to be), witty (loads of the funny), and plain fun.
From there the movie goes directly downhill. From the odd characters and their motivations to the military that quarantines the area, but doesn't spend a single minute actually looking for the monster. It's just confusing and pointless. Although, some of it might have been anti-US stuff as they were mentioned a lot, but if it was the message did not get communicated well. Or maybe the U.S. was just mentioned a lot because we are their military? I don't know.
All you need to know is that it's decent for a foreign horror film, the monster is kind of cool (despite its completely random acts), and it's worth a viewing by true horror fans. Nobody else needs to bother.
4 out of 10. This could've been a 7 if the writing had been competent.
I had heard good things so I picked it up. While I was pleasantly surprised to be entertained, there was some stupid shit.
I should point out that this movie is compared to Jaws. Uhm...no. Not even remotely fucking close. Try again. I was actually thinking more like Jaws 3 only harder to follow and with less realism.
The opening scene is pure environmental propaganda. The evil white man, one of the VERY few to appear in the film, tells the hapless South Korean to dump the toxic chemicals out because the bottles are dusty. Whatever. I'm actually more shocked they didn't get a Bush lookalike to play the evil guy.
Thankfully that ignorant scene only lasts a minute and we get to one of the best sequences I've seen in a horror film in years. The monster is revealed and death is everywhere. It's an action scene that's scary (well, supposed to be), witty (loads of the funny), and plain fun.
From there the movie goes directly downhill. From the odd characters and their motivations to the military that quarantines the area, but doesn't spend a single minute actually looking for the monster. It's just confusing and pointless. Although, some of it might have been anti-US stuff as they were mentioned a lot, but if it was the message did not get communicated well. Or maybe the U.S. was just mentioned a lot because we are their military? I don't know.
All you need to know is that it's decent for a foreign horror film, the monster is kind of cool (despite its completely random acts), and it's worth a viewing by true horror fans. Nobody else needs to bother.
4 out of 10. This could've been a 7 if the writing had been competent.