70
Chicago Reader by J.R. Jones
Eventually develops into a pleasantly bombastic Bond-style adventure.
Typhoon (태풍)
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- South Korea
- 2005
- · 124m
Director
Kwak Kyung-taek
Cast
Jang Dong-gun,
Lee Jung-jae,
Lee Mi-yeon,
Kim Kap-soo,
David Lee McInnis,
Chatthapong Pantanaunkul
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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What are critics saying?
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.
63
TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox
The action come fast and thick, and the sentimentality reaches near-operatic proportions.
50
The New York Times
Typhoon aims high but misses the emotional mark in most instances, resulting in some awkward melodramatics. Even so, it flourishes during its well-executed action sequences and commands attention almost instantaneously, though, in the end, it will be forgotten just as quickly.
50
Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington
As silly movies go, this one is at least pretty exciting. But in the end, Typhoon leaves you feeling as exiled from the two Koreas as Sin is.
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
New York Post by V.A. Musetto
Mainstream moviegoers will be put off by the subtitles, and art-house fans will be insulted by the story's shallowness.
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.
20
Village Voice
A cheap-looking action movie that sabotages itself at almost every turn.
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