Counter Comment to Disappointed Ones.

Rating: 9/10 (23 October 2004)

Let me start this off with the fact that I'm a Korean who currently lives in US. I can't say that this movie was the best movie ever made. However, I can say that it is a good war movie. Yes, I understand that it has the same old feeling and narrative style that has been used before (i.e. Saving Private Ryan). I read some reviews of others and I was very disappointed at their knowledge of Korean War. The two of the most terrifying wars in recent history are Korean War and Vietnam War. Yes, more people have suffered from WW II. However, WW II soldiers didn't have to point the gun at themselves. Both Korean and Vietnam War, soldiers had to point the gun to themselves, killing their brothers and sisters in the mid-point of the Cold War conflict. What is more horrifying than battling for survival against your friends and family? In Tagukgi, it tries to display that pain of facing your own people. One review said that how is it possible that Jin-Tae became rambo without proper training. The movie shows a scene of "untrained soldier" accidental shooting his team on the heat of the bombing. It shows that they weren't trained. According to the history, Korean War broke out as an invasion on a Sunday morning. Many unwilling men were drafted and received almost no training because they needed reinforcements right away. Shoeshine boy Jin-Tae became "rambo" not because he had skills, but because of his courage and heart to send his brother back home. It is a proved fact that a man can out-performs his average limitations in a critical situation. And of course he had to have some luck to dodge all those bullets. (Come on, this is a movie!) See the history and the pain behind the movie. If you take that pain of the movie away from it, this is just a Saving Private Ryan rip off with some cheesy CGI effects and some bad acting. Overall it is a good movie.