superb cinematography, superb acting, superb story line

Rating: 10/10 (8 March 2005)

This movie was well above my expectations. When a movie draws you into it so deeply that you forget the fact that you are reading subtitles, you have found a superb foreign film. I warn you that this movie does have very realistic battle scenes (More realistic than any other war movie out there)so it can be intense. This movie is done in the style of "Saving Private Ryan", which was a very good movie, but I believe this was one up. One factor that I appreciated was that there haven't been a whole lot of movies about the Korean war, especially from a non-American perspective. The cinematography was of the highest quality for a foreign film of its type. Although there was plenty of war time action, this movie was about more than that. Humanity was examined on a level that I have yet to see in any other film.