Given my love and admiration of the Asian cinema, then of course I jumped at the chance to get to sit down to watch the South Korean movie "Tunnel" (aka "Teo-neol"). I had not even heard about it prior to getting the chance to sit down and watch it, nor did I read the synopsis. It is South Korean, and that is reason enough to give it a chance.
"Tunnel" was an adequate disaster movie, although it was somewhat of a different approach on a disaster movie. It is not your usual large scale end-of-the-world type of disaster movie, but instead a personal one that followed the horrible events of one person.
The effects in the movie were good, and were realistic. And the effects definitely added to the sense of it feeling real and claustrophobic.
Now, the cast in "Tunnel" was quite limited, which added pressure on the individual actors and actresses to perform to carry the movie. And I will say that the performers in the movie definitely lived up to their jobs and did good jobs in bringing their characters to life on the screen.
"Tunnel" felt somewhat long, as the movie ran for more than two hours. It would have benefitted tremendously if they had been more thorough in the editing room and cutting the movie down to about an hour and a half instead. Some parts just felt tedious and were little more than just fillers.
However, unlike many of the multi-million dollar Hollywood disaster movies with bedazzling special effects, then "Tunnel" is not the type of movie that you can watch again and again.
"Tunnel" was an adequate disaster movie, although it was somewhat of a different approach on a disaster movie. It is not your usual large scale end-of-the-world type of disaster movie, but instead a personal one that followed the horrible events of one person.
The effects in the movie were good, and were realistic. And the effects definitely added to the sense of it feeling real and claustrophobic.
Now, the cast in "Tunnel" was quite limited, which added pressure on the individual actors and actresses to perform to carry the movie. And I will say that the performers in the movie definitely lived up to their jobs and did good jobs in bringing their characters to life on the screen.
"Tunnel" felt somewhat long, as the movie ran for more than two hours. It would have benefitted tremendously if they had been more thorough in the editing room and cutting the movie down to about an hour and a half instead. Some parts just felt tedious and were little more than just fillers.
However, unlike many of the multi-million dollar Hollywood disaster movies with bedazzling special effects, then "Tunnel" is not the type of movie that you can watch again and again.