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A high budget, spectacular war movie, but nonetheless I felt that I was watching a Korean remake of "Saving Private Ryan". | | AGREE? | READER COMMENTS | AUTHOR | | Y | Yes, very derivative. | Choco |
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"Tae Guk Gi" is your typical great war movie. The acting is all top notch and Kang Je-Gyu’s direction is very good. The story starts to get a little redundant, but fortunately things seem to change in the last third of the film. Overall, the political story of what happened to Korea during the Korean War is quite interesting. The action scenes are your standard war-style action with some good military combat. It may be a little on the long side for some, but it's a genuinely good movie. | | LOG IN TO COMMENT ON THIS REVIEW! |
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Everyone involved with this movie deserves a damn Oscar, because this is one of the greatest war movies ever made. The actors do a great job and the audience will laugh and cry with them until the credits start rolling. The film is long, but there's nothing in here that should ever be cut because every single scene matters. The script, the production, the music, the casting, everything is as close as movie perfection can get. A classic and cetainly unforgettable for the times to come. | | AGREE? | READER COMMENTS | AUTHOR | | N | This should have been called Saving Private Jin as this film is a derivative rip-off. Totally overrated, as is Shiri. | MS10197 | | Y | I wouldn't go that far w/ Oscar talk & all, it's just South Korea's "Saving Private Ryan". The movie is def. well done, the action is incredible. The cast was perfect. Hey check out the director's other film "Shiri" it's a great pic too. | JV47842 |
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Greatest war movie ever made. Very good action and storyline. | | AGREE? | READER COMMENTS | AUTHOR | | N | All Quiet on the Western Front, Paths of Glory, Patton, Platoon, Twelve O'Clock High, Fires on the Plain, Saving Private Ryan (from which this movie blatantly steals) are even Black Hawk Down are better than this ripoff of a movie. | MS10197 | | Y | I was going to quibble about whether this was the greatest war movie ever made, but find I can't. The staging and filming of battle scenes was as good as any, and I found I cared more for the characters than I did in any competing film. | Jeffrey Frawley |
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| Tae Guk Gi (or "Flag Of Brothers") is the highest grossing film in Korea. Over 20% of the entire population of Korea saw this movie. Directed by famous man Je-Gyu Kang (director of Shiri), this movie focuses on the Korean War: North Korea against South Korea. The North wants to change towards the way of communism, while the South wants to remain the same and not change the way they are. This movie is by far the most beautiful movie I have ever seen, with phenomenal acting, an amazing soundtrack, and characters that fit their parts perfectly. Jin-Seok loved his brother with everything he had, and would sacrifice his life for his brother. He worked as a shoe polisher to save up all the money he could to get Jin-Tae into college to get an education. All of a sudden a war has erupted. Brothers Jin-Tae and Jin-Seok are both drafted into the war, while their mother is left with Jin-Seok's girlfriend, and her three grandkids. Kang focuses more on the actions of the brothers, and how the war completely changes the way they fight in the war, and each other, rather then a blood festering, pointless action war movie. Jin-Seok tries to find any way possible to get his brother out of the war. He makes an agreement with the commander, that if he were to get the Medal of Honor, his brother would go home; something that the commander thought not possible. Jin-Seok's character begins to develop as he gets carried away with trying to be a hero for his brother, and wants to become one for himself. The ending is the most passionate ending I have ever seen, with a perfect mix of war action, dialogue and music tracks. Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War has everything a war movie should have: an amazing plot, soundtrack, and development.
Progression: The movie progresses at a perfect pace. I never found myself bored, or uninterested. Also the movie is easy to follow, and does not veer of the main point it is trying to prove: Love is something that will last forever.
Sound: The most beautiful soundtrack I have ever heard in a movie. The War scenes are done extremely well.
Special Effects: This movie looks like it would have a 200 plus million dollar budget. But it only was sixteen million. Very impressive.
Rating: I have never given a perfect score to anything, but this movie deserves a 10 out of 10. This is the best movie I have ever seen. |
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