LevysteinLockett
WOW!! It's rare that I can watch a movie and still feel so emotional after it's over. My tears are still streaming at the love one brother had for another!! This is a MUST SEE for all. This movie is not just about war.....the storyline between these brothers leaves me speechless and very emotional. What a great job to the director, cast and crew! Great overall movie!! Also, I am an American military veteran and was stationed in South Korea in 1997 (Osan Air Base). I've been to the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and what an eerie feeling it was to stand inside of that small building next to those North Korean soldiers knowing that if I stepped onto the other side of that table I'd have a serious problem per our briefing.
antoniocasaca123
I think that the director Je-Kyu Kang gives us a great and exempt argument and is therefore not politically correct and does it in a way that deserves my applause because he reports the war crimes of both sides of the conflict with a huge lucidity. This film had a budget of about 12 million USD, of the highest I have seen in South Korean production, which, at least in this century, has provided us with fantastic, creative and original films, of the most varied genres, made with little money, compared to what goes on in Hollywood. I imagine if this movie were made in the US, the budget would be around $ 100 million. This is just to say that you do not need huge budgets to make great movies. What is needed is the creativity and originality I mentioned above. The South Koreans have been the proof. Oh, by the way, the movie had revenues of about USD 77 Million worldwide.
cinemajesty
Movie Review: "Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War" (2004)A constant surprise in revisiting this exceptional independently-imported war-action-movie on civil conflict events taking place between 1950 and 1953, when North Korean communists invade South Korean capitalists to never-seen-before devastating visual proportions under hammering as decisive sound design and waves of emotion-pitching score by Dong-jun Lee under the directions Je-kyu Jang, when brothers in arms as life performing Korean movie stars Bin Won and Dong-gun Jang, playing their hearts out in Hollywood-standards-setting as Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan" recalling war-action-scenes of bullet-penetrated flesh, mud-splashing grenade explosions and full-contact character confrontations in an 130-Minute-Editorial that has even with its subtitled dialogue feed, enough punch to be a masterpiece of contemporary-produced historic-war-occasions, interpreted for impressively 12.5 Million U.S. Dollar productions expenses, which may look like a 100 Million in a full circle journey of an younger brother of two, exploring archaeological past fields-of-war in the year 2003 in order to solve a mystery of double-crossing, North Korean brainwashed main character elevated absolution of red corning 1950s, in reminiscence of striking power "To Whom The Bells Toll" (1943) starring Gary Cooper & Ingrid Bergman, to unforgettable as bonding motion picture experience.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend
(Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)
lakshmanan-nithin
One of the best war movies I have ever seen. Amazing, visceral and heart wrenching!! This is a must watch!!! Amazing screenplay and acting.Don't Expect any feel good factor here. Director portrays war just as it is, No propaganda. I was moved to tears by the end of the movie. Goes to show that there are no winners in a war. The country may win or lose but the people caught in it always lose.I sincerely hope this is not based on a true story cause that would really break my heart.As far as Saving Private Ryan is concerned, I would never say its the same. they both exposed the horrors of war, but this one goes beyond that and shows what the families who are left behind go through as well.
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