A heart and gut-wrenching war movie

Rating: 10/10 (23 December 2007)

This has to be one of, if not the best war movie I've ever seen. It has all the usual elements of a war movie, the characters trying to get home, the personal struggles, the depiction of the enemy as heartless and souless. However, what sets this one apart is that it perfects all of these usual clichés. Being one of two brothers in real life, I understood the struggle of the two main characters very well. In terms of realism, the movie was very realistic, it definitely had the feel of a war movie to it as the makers captured the feel of Saving Private Ryan very well. The sound and score were very well done and fitting. Finally, this doesn't usually happen, but I actually cried in this movie. Being one of two brothers like I previously mentioned and Asian, I really felt Lee Jin-Seok's struggle. Really good, possibly the best war movie I've seen in my entire life. This one will put a lump down your throat, send a few chills down your spine, and really make you think about what war can do.
10/10. They need to make more war movies that center around Asian conflicts. How about one depicting the war between the Chinese and the Japanese in World War 2?