Painful mess of a movie concerning the people living in and around Haeundae (I believe thats the cities name) who go through various serious and comedic gyrations while officials debate the possibility of a tsunami like the one that hit on Christmas 2004 near Sumatra hitting Korea. Of course huge earthquake happens which triggers the greatly feared event.
Real mess of a movie doesn't know whether its serious or a comedy. Even by standards of Asian films which often mix moods, this is a real uneven movie.One need only watch the disaster sequences to see how terrible tragedy is inter-cut with some very silly moments. Of course it would help if we had some characters to root for but unfortunately there are only card board cut outs that are moved around.
Then again I doubt anyone would watch this film for the story, what most people want is the spectacle of the Tsunami and on that score the film is pretty good. Granted most of the effects are computer generated which results in some uneven moments (the destruction of the aquarium is pretty bottom of the barrel fake). I'm not sure its worth navigating through the talky bits of the first hour, but on DVD getting to the good stuff is going to be rather painless.
At best a rental, this is really only for people who want to see the destruction of 50 or 60 story waves crashing into a big city. All others best look elsewhere.
Real mess of a movie doesn't know whether its serious or a comedy. Even by standards of Asian films which often mix moods, this is a real uneven movie.One need only watch the disaster sequences to see how terrible tragedy is inter-cut with some very silly moments. Of course it would help if we had some characters to root for but unfortunately there are only card board cut outs that are moved around.
Then again I doubt anyone would watch this film for the story, what most people want is the spectacle of the Tsunami and on that score the film is pretty good. Granted most of the effects are computer generated which results in some uneven moments (the destruction of the aquarium is pretty bottom of the barrel fake). I'm not sure its worth navigating through the talky bits of the first hour, but on DVD getting to the good stuff is going to be rather painless.
At best a rental, this is really only for people who want to see the destruction of 50 or 60 story waves crashing into a big city. All others best look elsewhere.