Not bad at all

Rating: 10/10 (7 April 2006)

Perfectly filmed action scenes. Tough realistic story of brotherhood. A history lesson for many of us. The filmmakers did make a very personal film.
"Taegukgi hwinalrimyeo" has several intense war scenes (perfect cinematography) which just go on and on. They leave bloody under-taste in your mouth. No stupid intermissions, no mumble talks, no background humour - only blood, gore, pain, and broken lives.
Some say that the main characters are kept alive in an unnatural manner. Well, war is also unnatural and some fantastic things happen (during the bloody wars in the 20th century quite a lot of unbelievable but true stories of survival took place). As to the gay topic - come on, it is ridiculous. How can such thoughts strike a viewers mind? When a boy buys his younger brother an ice-cream - is it supposed to be gay-like behaviour? One should refer to "Brokeback Mountain" for such topics.
There were no tears in my eyes at the end of the movie but it did leave solid and strong impression.
One of the war masterpieces - 10 out of 10 (deep respect to Korea). Thank you for attention.