Siblings Unrivalled.

Rating: 10/10 (27 March 2006)

Stunning, beautiful and heart rendering.
This fantastic movie based on the perils of war and division, that falls upon the nations that is North and South Korea is a mind-blowing journey of two brothers caught up in the fight between the cross fire that are these two great States.
With absolute breathtaking realism, the action, the battle scenes, is sheer brilliance. We are subjected to pure tension and dynamism that has to be continued throughout this two and a half hour ordeal. This movie will have your emotions on a roller coaster ride till the very end; to say that Taegukgi will leave a lasting impression is saying only a tiny amount, this movie will try for your jugular, then it will rip out your heart.
Besides the very beautiful musical score, by Dong-jun Lee, that are the wheels of your roller coaster, driving us to the highs and lows of our journey, there is the stunning and very effective Cinematography of Kyung-Pyo Hong that it the visual dialogue for our journey into the chaos of war.
Not so much a war movie, but a movie based around war, to make us understand that in this World of ours, there is evil that lurks in the shadows, to place the breaks on our roller coaster and to propel us to fight Common Man against Common Man, for the sake of a better ideology, regardless of circumstance and casualties.
Taegukgi is not a story of the Brotherhood of war, but how families can be torn into desperate, unwanted and uncontrolled terror, to debase us, to become non-human, to kill, and having the will power to survive the atrocities that fall at our doorstep and to recognise this difference.
Taegukgi is truly a heart-rending story of two brothers and the pact of the elder to protect his younger sibling, for the sake of their Mother, this movie will have you in shock at the horror of war, and at the same time, in emotional turmoil.
Truly astounding and moving, till the very last turn of the wheels.
Watch it. Feel It.