champetudo
Really long and very frustrating... No vengeance at all.. Just scene after scene of how the bad guys win... I suppose maybe it was that way on the real world...
Leofwine_draca
26 YEARS is another hard-hitting South Korean thriller, based around the infamous Gwangju massacre of 1980 which was Korea's own Tiananmen Square incident. The title refers to the main action taking place twenty-six years after the event, where an assembled motley group of survivors and relatives of those killed in 1980 decide to get revenge on the politician responsible. As with most Korean films I've seen, this one is expertly directed and photographed, with the inventive use of animation to play out key events of the past. It's a little overlong and a little heavy on the emoting side of things - a familiar aspect of Korean cinema - but the thriller aspects are wonderfully portrayed, with some highly suspenseful set-pieces building to an elaborate, exciting climax.
lovegang
Not so suspenseful after the first assassination attempt. This hopeful action film evolved to a drama focused movie, with many cheesy dialogue. There was this sense of fair from the production crew, like they're afraid of stepping over political lines. It made the movie unorganized and consist of uncorrelated scenes; And prolonging the final attempt to kill Chun Doo Hwan. I felt unsympathetic for the characters in the movie, and unjust as an audience at the end when they don't show the final kill. They leave it as a cliffhanger, as in the korean film culture values it.
alshwenbear1
By the end I was yelling at the screen! Shoot! Based on true events on the story of Korea, and unfortunately with similitude to Mexico in 1968, made this film so intense, it is like having six cups of coffee within six minutes, it is like failing to catch the last train home and losing it after running a mile. The movie builds up slowly and fatefully to its purpose, the acting, what can we say? It's a Korean movie, different but compelling. How much can you wish that one of the movie characters gets to die? Especially when you know is a rotten human being much like the Mexican president Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, who before the Olympics in Mexico City, ordered the soldiers to shoot on innocent people on October 2, 1968. I was wondering if ever anyone related to the massacred kids in Tlatelolco, ever fantasize on doing something like in "26 Years" , and "El paciente interno" (THE CONVICT PATIENT) (2012) seems to be the answer to the question, unfortunately I haven't seen this documentary or heard about director Alejandro Solar, but definitely I am looking forward to see his work . To anyone interested in the subject I would recommend "Rojo amanecer" Red Dawn (1990) directed by Jorge Fons, even though the movie presents the story only from "the experience" of one family living in one of the Tlatelolco Buildings. The Koreans, the Chinese in Tiananmen plaza, and many other places in the world have suffer, and lived in terrifying memories. Too bad in real life dictator Augusto Pinochet died of old age, too bad Gustavo Diaz Ordaz never was punished, and too bad Chun Doo-Hwan is still living virtually free! "26 Years" is a good movie that I would recommend to those who like to think and reflect about the past and future of any society on our messed up world.
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