R-point (2004) (Korean)

April 22, 2007 · Posted in Action, Horror, Korean Movies

Review taken from IMDb.
The motif of this movie is similar to that of “apocalypse now”. Like this classic movies about Vietnam, R point described the horror which the soldiers confronted at the battle field. Although this movie adopted many things from ‘apocalypse now’, it shows another type of the horror- in the oriental meaning- “punitive justice”. no one would return home if he committed bloody thing. What the soldiers felt as original sin is what they committed in Vietnam. And the curse was cast on them as Chinese troop, french troop, and US troop (they were all the invaders to Vietnam) were “punished”.

The director said that he wanted to make this movie as antiwar movie. I think that he oscillated between “horror movie” and “antiwar movie”. The plot is monotonous and solders’ mental state and personal history were so much omitted that it hard to understand without further information. However, I think that his attempt is relatively successful. I thought much about the deployment of Korean troop to Iraq, after I saw this movie.

Directed: Su-chang Kong (Tell Me Something)
Genre: Action / Horror / War
Cast: Woo-seong Kam, Byung-ho Son, Tae-kyung Oh, Won-sang Park, Seon-gyun Lee, Jin-ho Song
Runtime: 107 minutes
Country: Korea
Language: Korean / English
Subtitles: English srt. files.
IMDb link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417072/

(6.3 rating out of 10)