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Typhoon(태풍)

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Korea · 2005
Rated R · 2h 4m
Director Kwak Kyung-taek
Starring Jang Dong-gun, Lee Jung-jae, Lee Mi-yeon, Kim Kap-soo
Genre Action, Thriller

Myung-sin, who has become a pirate, lives with hatred in his heart and endures the hardships, seeks revenge on the two nations, North and South Korea, using nuclear waste that has the devastating power of plutonium. Se-jong, a South Korean naval officer departs with his team of elite forces to prevent Sin's master plan of Nuclear Typhoon. Born under the same skies of the same race, but of a completely different nation... Living a life so different, the two point their guns at each other's heart...

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Village Voice by

A cheap-looking action movie that sabotages itself at almost every turn.

50

L.A. Weekly by David Chute

The movie is executed by director Kwak Kyung-Taek with flair, technical polish and tumescent firepower that the shriveled cinemas of Hong Kong and Japan can no longer match. But every gesture feels synthetic, from the back story about North-South separation to massage the emotions of the home audience, to the 24-style globe-hopping nuclear-terrorism premise.

50

The A.V. Club by Keith Phipps

This may be the biggest production in Korean-film history, but viewers should search elsewhere for a better sampling of what the country has to offer.

25

Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Sean Axmaker

The humorless and self-important execution attempts an operatic scale but only succeeds in sinking the remnants of the story's integrity. By the time it makes landfall, this incoherent production has blown itself out.

70

Washington Post by Stephen Hunter

A few others have compared this to a James Bond movie, but it's more of a piece with a Tom Clancy movie; it never leaves the real world that far behind, it has a fair sense of documentary reality, and the action sequences -- from shootout to car chase to a commando takedown of a tanker on the high seas to a final knife fight -- are extremely well managed.

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