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Plot synopsis:
The film is set in 1972 during the Vietnam War. A group of South Korean soldiers from Battalion 53 fail to report back from a strategically important island 150 kilometers south of Saigon referred to as R-Point. The soldiers have been missing for 6 months and are presumed dead, until a shortwave radio transmission from R-Point is received from the missing soldiers. The transmission continues at irregular intervals over the next 3 months, repeating the same message - "Donkey 30, Butterfly, do you copy? Donkey 30, Butterfly, do you copy? We are dying..." This prompts HQ to dispatch a search-and-rescue party out to find the missing men, even though the sole survivor of the team insists that he saw all of them die and that he was the one who collected their dog-tags.A renowned combat veteran, LT Choi Tae-in, is ordered by HQ to lead the mission as an act of redemption for his crime (visiting an illegal brothel, which led to the death of his platoon mate at the hands of a female Vietcong). He is given seven days to lead a team of nine soldiers to find the missing men. HQ then recruits members for the mission by giving promises of an early discharge from the Army and a journey home on a commercial airline upon success of the mission.The men then set sail to the island referred to as R-Point from a dock and, upon arrival, took 2 photos of the expedition team. But, not long after proceeding into the jungle, they are ambushed by the Vietcong. They take cover and fire blindly, until LT Choi flanks the pillbox and disables it with a rocket launcher. When they investigate the pillbox, they find a female guerrilla next to the decomposing body of another VC. One of the soldiers searches her for intelligence items, looks at her bracelet with a cat bell tied to it and is tempted to take it. After being told that his fingers will rot off if he steals a dead person's belongings, he quickly relinquishes the idea. After arguing over who should finish the girl off, LT Choi eventually decides to leave her be and move on.After a while they come across a grassy field with two large stones at the entrance with carvings; the first stone saying Hundreds of years ago the Chinese killed the Vietnamese and dumped their bodies in the lake, it has since been filled in and a temple erected in memory of the Vietnamese and the second stone saying Wherever you go, I'll be there. All those with blood on their hand will not.... The last part is not legible as it was chipped off over time. Being soldiers, they shrug it off as a hoax and decide to think nothing more of it. That night after the men set up camp, Corporal Cho reveals he is a mortician's son and that the area the bodies are buried in is not a suitable place neither for the living nor the dead, adding that only ghosts are drawn to the area.When they wake up the following morning, they find they had slept right in front of an abandoned French Plantation. They proceed to search the house, clear all the rooms and set up base. Sergeant Jung and Sergeant Mah find a small footlocker with maps left by the previous French garrison and a broken tape-player. After the briefing on the details of the mission, Sgt Mah realizes that Sgt Oh was from Battalion 53 and would know how the missing men looked like. Sgt Oh denied this, after which LT Choi passes the order to search the surrounding area in two squads.When on the search, Cpl Cho misses the main group because he was relieving himself. He looks around in despair and shouts out to his comrades to no avail. Eventually, he found the group of soldiers at a field up ahead. He whispers to the men, furious at them not answering his calls. The men show no emotions and do not react to Cpl Cho, who notices the last man wrote "Jung Sook, wait for me" on his helmet. He looks back at the forest, and turns around to see the soldiers going prone in the tall grass. Instinctively he does the same, but is confused when no one stands back up at the lack of hostilities. He stands, but does not see anyone in the grass.1st Sgt Jin then notifies Lt Choi that Cpl Cho is missing. He leads his team and meets up with 1st Sgt Jin at the temple that the Chinese built. After a combined search effort, they finally find Cpl Joh hiding in a small opening. They chide Cpl Cho that evening back at the plantation and deride him for insisting that he saw soldiers, especially the man with the writings on his helmet. Sgt Oh is particularly irritated with this and warns Cpl Joh to stop his ridiculous rantings, and stops because they hear the approach of a helicopter in the distance. The men quickly rush outside to survey the situation and are surprised to see Americans this late into the night. Led by Sergeant First Class Beck, the U.S. Soldiers report that they are here to check on the batteries providing the plantation with electricity and adds that they only come here at night because the fog in the day presents a danger to flying. After the Americans finish with their business on the second floor, SFC Beck informs LT Choi of the history of the plantation as a French fort. He says that the French garrison here was wiped out in an instant by an unknown entity that was not the VC as the latter had yet to exist. Elaborating more, SFC Beck claims that nothing survives at R-Point. He is evidently amused at LT Choi's ignorance for not knowing about the rumors surrounding R-Point prior to their mission. Before leaving, he bets that LT Choi's men won't survive until the next maintenance trip four days later and reminds the LT not to touch the American's belongings on the second floor. But, as a gesture of good luck, the Americans leave a rack of beer for the Koreans before retreating into the night.In the meantime, Sgt Oh confronts Cpl Cho at a quiet spot outside the plantation. He gets rough with the Corporal, and insists that the latter confess to how he came to know of the "Jung Sook" helmet. Cpl Joh repeats that he saw the guy with the helmet, much to the disbelief of Sgt Oh. Cpl Cho pushes the Sergeant aside, remarking that he has had enough from Sgt Oh.Back at the plantation, Sgt Mah brings the tape-player to the radio operator, Cpl Byun. He asks Cpl Byun if he can fix it, and is reassured in return. Lt Choi came by, and Cpl Byun reports that the radio is receiving local transmissions only. He adds that he received a transmission from a French unit not far from the plantation, and that the French soldier told him that his name was Jacques. Jacques mentioned that he served in the same unit with his twin brother, Paul, and that his unit would be coming by the Koreans soon. Lt Choi counters by noting that Cpl Byun does not understand French, hence would not understand whatever the supposedly Frenchman was saying. This is then dismissed as a sign of severe fatigue.The soldiers are resting at their bunks when Cpl Byun appears with the repaired tape-player. He plays it and the men are then dancing to the music from The Ventures. They make merry until the point where the music is replaced by a recording of the presumably last moments of the missing soldiers. The screams and gunshots from the player fills the room. Lt Choi then requisitions the player and replayed the tape over and over at his bunk.On the night that Sgt Mah and Sgt Jung are assigned on guard duty, they spot Private Chung walking off into the forest. That exact night, Lt Choi hears ringing cat bells, and sees the VC girl who ambushed them at the beginning. Strangely, the girl was now wearing a white Áo dài and is walking around the plantation.In the morning Sgt Park, reported that Pvt Chung is missing. Cpl Cho and Sgt Park are searching the grounds when Sgt Park sits on the steps to rest. He tells Cpl Joh to go ahead without him. While the ever-vain Sgt Park checks his appearance with a mirror, a drip of blood falls on him. Park looks up in disgust, and had the living daylights scared out of him when a bucket-full of blood splashes on him. Lt Choi realizes that the blood was from the body of Pvt Chung, hanging off the roof of the plantation. Choi decides to search the surroundings for the VC supposedly responsible for killing Chung.At the temple, Sgt Jin finds incense burning at the altar. He realizes that the VC must have been here to offer their respects to the dead. Hence, he has his men set up booby-traps around the temple to kill the VC when they return to light more incense. That night, while reporting back to HQ, Choi is derided by his superior for being delusional. He is told that Pvt Chung IS one of the missing men, and that he only took 9 men to start with. The soldiers begin to recollect their memories on Chung, and can only remember him present with the group at the landing and not at the docks. They look at the photos they took to confirm their suspicions and find Pvt Chung amongst them. They suspect the supernatural, but are not convinced. Only Lt Choi knows the truth.Sgt Oh recollects his memories and thinks back to his platoon mate with the "Jung Sook wait for me" helmet. He remembers that his comrade handed him a camera to pass on to Jung Sook, but Sgt Oh presumably kept the camera for himself after hearing that his friend went missing at R-Point.Lt Choi, contemplating the situation, notices the same VC girl outside the plantation. This time, he follows the girl and inadvertently arrives at a graveyard where the French soldiers were buried. He looks at the crosses over the grave and is shocked to see one marked "Jacques et Paul" (French for Jacques and Paul). He thinks back to the transmission that Cpl Byun told him about and is thoroughly convinced that R-Point is haunted. When he returns to the base, the soldiers hear a booby-trap going off. They rush to the temple to find Sgt Oh lying in a pool of blood. Evidently, Oh tripped off one of the traps. He is disillusioned and keep repeating "I'm sorry...", finally reaching out to Cpl Cho and asking the latter for forgiveness.After this incident, 1st Sgt Jin told Lt Choi that he would lead a group of men to search for the missing parties. The next morning, they set off in two squads.Sgt Jin orders his group to search for the dog tags and, whilst they are distracted, he takes some from his pocket and throws them on the ground. In a previous flashback we are shown Jin being handed the dog tags and being ordered to 'complete the mission, no matter what the truth'. Both sides were unable to maintain radio contact with the other during the search, hence 1st Sgt Jin had his men hunker down at a clearing and try getting through to Lt Choi. Instead of staying with his men, he ventures out into the wilderness alone and falls through a valley. Cpl Byun, unable to find 1st Sgt Jin, assumes command of the squad and sets off to meet up with Lt Choi. Lt Choi, in the meantime, arrived at the crash site of a UH-1 Huey helicopter. He finds the body of Sergeant First Class Beck, instantly recognizable by the Peace necklace that was on him. Sgt Mah and Sgt Jung, who were the only ones willing to follow Lt Choi, were frightened beyond their wits. They decide to meet up with Cpl Byun before proceeding with any other searches.Jin, who woke up in a gully, explores the caves within. He hears the transmission that was sent to the HQ at the beginning, and moves in to investigate. He comes up to a small hole in the cave walls and sees a soldier, back facing him, with a radio. The transmission continues until he turns the operator around to see a decomposing body.While walking to meet up with Choi, Cpl Cho finds himself the target of a ghost. He tells Cpl Lee, and is told to shoot anything that moves. He sees the illusion of Sgt Oh walking ahead and fires his M16. Incidentally, the direction he fired in was where Choi was coming from. In the confusion, Sgt Mah is shot and subsequently dies.The men arrive at the base, and Lt Choi breaks into the room containing the equipment that the Americans brought. Instead of finding the batteries, they find rusting and out-of-service radios. Obviously, the room was left to disuse for a long period of time, which then led Lt Choi to realize that the Americans were also dead and were ghosts. The men begin to panic, and Cpl Lee aims his MG at Choi. Choi nonchalantly pushes the MG away and slaps Lee to his senses, while the men pack the radio to the bunks for repair.Cpl Byun, after repairing the radio, tries to contact HQ. His efforts, being in vain, adds to the tension. The radio then suddenly bursts to life and Lt Choi requests immediate evacuation. HQ confirms that a chopper will arrive at 5:50 am to pick the men up. After the transmission, there are sounds outside the plantation. The soldiers take up defensive positions, only to see 1st Sgt Jin come back with the head of the decomposed operator and the radio. Sgt Park breaks down, runs to him and begs him to keep him alive. Jin, after asking him if that was what he wanted, grabbed Park by the head and decapitates him. Choi guns him down, is fully aware that the ghost is manipulating the soldiers into killing each other. Eventually Cpl Byun breaks down too, and blinds Sgt Jung with a grenade. Cpl Lee then drops to the floor and laments why he has to suffer like this, and Cpl Cho shoots him in the head. After Choi guns Cho down, he tends to Jung's injuries. While bandaging Jung, he saw a photo in the left breast pocket on Jung. He takes it out; it is a photo of the French Garrison. He looks at the faces and finds a familiar one amongst the Frenchmen - the VC girl. At that instant, he hears more footsteps and then comes face-to-face with the VC girl. He tries, in vain, to bring his machete to bear upon the girl. The VC girl starts laughing and her eye begins to bleed. Choi tries to resist the girl's possession but she is too strong and thus, not wanting to be possessed and then kill Jung, he orders Jung to aim his rifle in his direction and fire. Choi was killed at the last moment, leaving Jung to call out to him in despair. Jung, now blinded, is immune to the ghosts' possession because he cannot see them and therefore he is safe from the ghosts.Jung, driven insane, mumbles nonsense until the morning. He keeps insisting that all this is a prank played on him by the rest of the squad and keeps calling their names. The rescue team comes with the rescue chopper contacting HQ, reporting that they found one survivor, Jung, and that there were no signs of the rest. The movie end with the same dusty radio, dripping blood but this time instead of saying Donkey 30, it says Mole 3, Choi's team.

Tags: neo noir, murder, paranormal, violence, flashback, revenge

Review:
Frighteningly effective psychological Korean horror tale set in Vietnam War. War films are usually ten a penny, with similar plots or ideas, but R-Point bucks the trend.
The film centres round a mission by a Korean unit during the Vietnam who find themselves haunted by forces they don't know, and progressively end up going mad and self-destructing.The film blends together what the many things that have been great about Korean cinema.
The setting could hardly have been any better done, whilst the tone of the movie is well paced to avoid this following into the same trap that many a horror film follow.
An original film in many ways, but really it is taking various genres and blending them in them together finely.I don't want to say too much else I will give too much away, but this is a film to watch, and is the best horror movie I have seen for a while.
But the area has a secret past, a haunting curse untold for 30 years.1st Vietnamese War -1949- 12 French soldiers who were in battle with communist guerrillas went mysteriously missing.
Six months prior to the beginning of the film, a group of recon soldiers are sent to "R-Point", a strategically significant island south of Saigon.
Radio contact is lost, and they're presumed dead, until six months later ("present day" in the film's sense) radio transmissions are received claiming that the soldiers are alive and in grave danger.
A squad of 9 soldiers, led by hardened veteran Lt. Choi, are dispatched to find them and bring them home.What follows isn't an action-heavy horror movie, but a more tense, atmospheric exploration of the lines between the supernatural and reality.
The plot of R Point revolves around a Korean platoon operating near the end of the Vietnam war.
Upon arrival it is obvious that the location to which they have been sent is somehow menacing and that the area might be haunted.This is by no means a Hollywood style, all out horror flick, and for myself this was its strength: The film starts in a fairly relaxed way, but subtly becomes more and more eerie as it progresses.
A very unique point-of-view of Vietnam war from the Korean coalition soldiers, with a side of supernatural also.
The plot of this movie is very similar to the movie like "Deathwatch".It is about a group of Korean soldiers sent on a mission to an island with some very bad juju going on.
Between the Viet Cons, the ghosts, and the phantom American and Korean soldiers, They must keep their sanity if the soldiers want to return alive.This movie is beautifully shot on location in Vietnam and Cambodia and also includes a building that will reminds you of the hospital in "Session 9".
Like many of the best horrors the fear in R-Point comes from what you don't see.It's a simple premise for a film: a ghostly horror set in the dying days of the Vietnam War. It twists and pant-filling turns are so effective you think surely Hollywood couldn't resist remaking it with a giant budget.
Zhang Yimou the director of Hero is already in the process of making an English language version.A Korean platoon are dispatched to a remote island to investigate the disappearance of nine soldiers, who despite being presumed dead have begun radioing back blood curdling messages to HQ.
Like this classic movies about Vietnam, R point described the horror which the soldiers confronted at the battle field.
Vietnam,1972.A troop of South Korean soldiers are urged by a mysterious radio signal to locate a missing patrol unit in the location called R-Point.Finding far more to fear than snipers,these carefully conceived characters,each with his own involving emotional history,discover that the miseries of war aren't confined to the physical territories of the jungle-they also resonate throughout the dark depths of the unknown."R-Point" totally creeped me out.It features some truly scary moments that will linger in the memory of viewer for a long period of time."R-Point" scores most of its points in the last half hour,when the situation escalates into full-blown bloody madness and the final desperate stand-off is a perfect end to the film.Highly recommended.9 out of 10..
With the right setting, perfect camera angles and some excellent acting you don't need a lot of special effect, blood or lame monster/murderer around corner scenes to make a real good horror film.
Do not believe the hype.The plot concerns a group of soldiers sent to R-Point to investigate a group radio signals from a group of supposedly dead men.
Recent films such as the Bunker, or Deathwatch cover similar territory to varying degrees of success.For most of the running time R-Point works, as a good but not great thriller.
I did look away and did feel lost.I also have reservations about the reasons for events toward the end, they don't seem natural, I suspect this is due to the director attempting to add more weight to the story than a straight horror film could carry.
I think the attempts at allegory weaken the film and prevent it from being either a horror film or allegory.Still I do recommend the film for those people who want to see something creepy but not too scary, and who don't mind it doesn't completely work to the end..
PLOT: A squad of Korean soldiers is deployed on a search & rescue mission after a radio transmission is received from a missing team, killed by unknown forces.REVIEW: R-Point does well in establishing an ominous atmosphere at the beginning of the film.
Still, there are several good scenes, and enough hints at what a good movie this could have been, that it's worth watching at least once for hardcore Asian-horror fans.
A Korean platoon in Vietnam that vanished six months before our story starts, in a remote area designated R-Point, has suddenly started radioing in to HQ.
In another, a late night visit from a passing American platoon divulges some of R-Point's backstory, and sets up a creepy reveal later in the film.Up to this point, atmosphere is very disturbing and there is a lot of tension.
I forget where I read it, but someone once said that any genre movie can be forgiven its worst failings as long as it follows the "Awesome!" rule -- that it has at least one knockout scene that makes you say, "Okay, _that_ was awesome!" R-Point has no such scene.The soldiers begin fighting amongst one another, but you don't really know them that well, so it's hard to understand why.
While chasing the missing soldiers, weird things happen with the rescue team."R-Point" is an original, scary and ambiguous journey to hell of the innermost fear of a group of soldiers.
This horror movie explores the supernatural, but its ambiguity allows the logical interpretation that nothing happened but the madness process of a group of stressed soldiers, alone in a creepy and sacred location, affected by the dark atmosphere of the spot and killing each other.
This Korean horror film is set towards the end of the Vietnam conflict.
The basic plot is that a platoon of Korean soldiers went missing at R-Point, a former French plantation in Vietnam.
It was nothing really special and -- while I don't particularly enjoy horror films (particularly with a lot of gratuitous gore, Al or otherwise) -- I had to watch this one in installments because it got somewhat repetitive and predictable.Not speaking Korean, I relied on subtitles but was surprised at how pedestrian the dialog was.
Set in Vietnam in 1972, a platoon of Korean soldiers are sent to find the whereabouts of missing soldiers only to find themselves haunted and hunted by dead soldiers' ghosts.
Also, the filmmakers wanted to have it both ways -- make it a horror movie, but also as a psychological horror (i.e. is it real or not?) Etc. But he kept showing things that undermine his own point.
We died for less than nothing," Standing before the wall with its 58,196,913 names of dead and missing chiseled in pristine granite, Sen. Jean Luc Ciraude, who was tortured and held prisoner by the Viet Kong for seven years, called it "weird." The year is 1972 and amidst the Vietnam War, nine Korean soldiers end up missing at a section located only 150km from Ho Chi Minh City known as "R Point." Despite being missing for more than six months, Korean headquarters occasionally receive radio transmissions, requesting help.
well...no spoilers here.As a fan of gore, horror, medical abnormalities, shocks and so on, this movie offered me nothing but screaming soldiers running like headless chickens.But I must admit that OK, the ending was better than I thought.I fell asleep in the halfway of this movie in the first time...so....
It is certainly an intriguing idea to send a bunch of war weary soldiers on a ghost hunt but an idea is all this film has going for it.
And the simple karmic ghost story does little justice either to the genre of horror or war.
I know that violence isn't everything with a horror movie, but something needed to be added to make up for the horrible acting (especially the American).
That's more or less the case with R-Point too, it turns out, so I'd say it's really a "horror movie with soldiers".During the Vietnam war, the Korean base receives a radio transmission claiming to be from a platoon of soldiers that went missing some months ago, and were presumed dead.
Strange things start happening, and the soldiers begin to worry that their lives may be in danger, not from the Viet Cong, but from something altogether scarier.Well, to cut a long story short, they're not wrong :p As observed before, I'm not really big on horror movies - I don't like to be scared, and I don't like to play along with them when they do the tired camera/audio tricks to make you jump or raise the hairs on your neck.
I especially don't like horror movies that never bother trying to engage your intellect and explain why all these horrible things are happening, which seems to me to be the flaw in many of the recent Asian horror films.
The band of soldiers act little different from the average group of college kids in a slasher film in the face of the supernatural, despite the fact they've presumably been in equally horrific situations where their enemies were other humans.
Written and directed by Su-chang Kong, his first at directorship, he has delivered a very atmospheric ghost story based around War, as more in the way of a good frightener than a fighting movie.
R-Point delivers the goods in a slow, intentional and methodical way, to evolve the viewer in the character and his environment, and then shoot them down with terrifying results.As with most good ghost stories, a musical score is what is also needed; this is done by the work of Pa-lan Dal. His interpretation of the unsettling atmosphere delivers a chilling tingle down the spine.
R-Point is essentially a small horror film that pays homage to such Japanese horrors as The Grudge or The Ring, but then also to classics such as Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket, and is a film I rate highly as an enjoyable and effective wartime ghost story.A disgraced Lieutenant, a stone cold Sergeant and a literal Dirty Dozen of the South Korean army's VD infected.
The only reason they're there is the incentive that if they complete the mission, they get to go home.Their mission is to enter R-Point, a strategic vantage point on an island between South Korea and Vietnam and find the missing men sent there and having disappeared after sending a very strange distress call back to HQ.R-Point is a cheap little horror film that makes the very most of what it does have to offer, and that is atmosphere and suspense.
The visuals are beautiful, the location is beautiful and even if the dialogue is a bit silly at times, the actors do a damn fine job considering I don't know any of them.From start to finish, R-Point subtly builds tension and atmosphere and plays on the imagination using the power of suggestion, allowing for multiple agendas and outcomes to come of what happens throughout.Conventionally it doesn't do anything new but admirably improves an old and exploited genre that has seen a small comeback with the likes of Deathwatch and Outpost, relying on human drama, intrigue and multiple strand narratives to keep the audience guessing as to how the end will happen rather than what the outcome will most typically be.Untypically, its characters are all very different people with complex pasts and concerns in their lives.
Six months ago on an island situated south of Ho Chi Minh City and known as R-Point, nine Korean soldiers went missing.
Now a rescue party - nine soldiers, has nine days to rescue the missing.While they are on the mission, they find shocking stuff and some see strange things like ghost in the places.This is a really good horror movie, it had great atmosphere and really creepy moments, also liked fact the fact , that they showed ghost in daylight, you don;t see that often in horror movies.I not sure, i don't think the subtitles where 100% rights, if they were, the word D***head was said a lot, which i did find unreal.Acting from everyone was really good.
A group of korean soldiers during the vietnam war gets
R Point is a solid and suspenseful war/horror film taking place in 1972 Vietnam..
This Korean chiller is set in 1972 and centred on a squad of soldiers serving in the Vietnam War. Lieutenant Choi Tae-in and eight other soldiers head to R-Point on an island 150 km south of Saigon; their task to discover what happened to another squad that had been presumed dead for the last six months but had recently radioed in.
Once on the island it starts like a typical war film with a nice little firefight in a bamboo forest; the splintering bamboo makes it look real.
Overall I'd definitely recommend this to horror fans who like to be chilled and kept on edge rather and gore and jumpsThese comments are based on watching the film in Korean with English subtitles..
And while not the best in the genre, R-Point does have it's moments.The cast give good performances, the direction Su-chang Kong is first rate, keeping the movie tense and atmospheric.
And one of the good things, like I think good ghost and horror movies should be able to do, is never fully explain everything.
R-Point is an example of the rare genre hybrid of the war/horror movie.
Other notable examples include Apocalypse Now and Jacob's Ladder; however, R-Point is a more direct war/horror hybrid, with supernatural goings-on and your traditional Asian she-ghost.Although the premise of the film holds a lot of potential for the exploration of war themes, particularly in regards to reflections on the sins committed during war and the slow descent into madness that's well exhibited in Apocalypse Now as well as other issues dealing with the horrors of war.
The real building, which it is made on the lake that was filled by many Vietnamese corpses, the S.O.S. in the R-point, the person who was one of a searching soldier but, in fact, he was the one of missing people.
Most of horror scenes in the movie was normal so people cannot feel anything about the suspensive things.
However, watching this supernatural Vietnam War movie is much more of a nightmare than a dream, but in the best possible way.
The movie was released in Korea in 2004, with the title R-Point, and is the fourth highest grossing Korean horror film of all time.
the other movies i mentioned were released before r point but it doesn't means that they were better than this one.Asian horror films most of the time proves they really know how to create horror.
This movie has a group of soldiers investigating the apparent deaths of a platoon of troops in a zone known as r-point.
Recap: Suddenly, a Korean platoon that went missing at R-Point, an island(?), suddenly starts to send radio messages requesting help.
The requisite "strange happenings" begin, and we watch as the new team is picked off by a strange force that possesses the men...Not an entirely original concept, but the story behind R-POINT at least mostly shys away from the typical "scary-girl-with-long-black-hair" trappings that many Asian ghost films have fallen into since the success of RINGU and JU-ON.
The Korean War really worked as a setting for a horror film and the locations were just the right side of spooky, even in full sunlight.I won't go into too much detail, but there are some moments that did unnerve me a little.
Like Ringu, The Eye or several other Eastern horror films, R-Point relied more on creating an atmosphere than on gore or 'jumpy' bits.Acting was very good, and each soldier was believable in their own right - no stupid caricatures here, as are found in many films that place a bunch of squaddies somewhere they don't want to be (often aping, yet never bettering the 'Predator' lineup).The last section of the film was a little muddled, although there were plenty of things I did like there too.
A Korean platoon mixed up in the Vietnam war is sent to a desolate island known as R-Point on a simple search and rescue mission, to recover the whereabouts of a troop, that has gone missing 6 months prior.
R-POINT is one of the recent wake of films that cross the barriers between warfare and horror to deliver a kind of startling, in-your-face type of movie in which unlucky soldiers find themselves dealing with both enemy gunfire and spirits of the dead.