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12 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 50The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Stephen ColeThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Stephen ColeAdolescent boys will savour My Way's bombast and solemnity. Cringing adult audiences will more likely beat a retreat before final call.
- 50New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoMy Way is not, as the title might suggest, a Frank Sinatra biopic. No, it's an eye-popping, empty-headed World War II epic made in South Korea.
- 40Time OutNick SchagerTime OutNick SchagerThe paeans about national pride and brotherhood may be regional, but constant slow-motion battle scenes and squishy sentimentality are strictly wanna-be Tinseltown.
- The bloody chaos can be suitably overwhelming, but you're too aware of the whizzing camerawork, helter-skelter editing and bombastic score.
- 30Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleLos Angeles TimesRobert AbeleThe nonstop adversity lacks any real sense of danger. Or, for that matter, emotional punch. Why these two long-distance runners keep each other alive should be of front-and-center concern. Instead, My Way is mostly an endurance test.
- 25Slant MagazineSlant MagazineMany films are saved in the editing room, but how many are ruined there?
- 25San Francisco ChronicleSan Francisco ChronicleKang is so over the top and jumbled in his storytelling, this could be his Michael Cimino ("Heaven's Gate") moment.
- 20Village VoiceVillage VoicePerhaps the most charitable thing that can be said about the 143-minute marathon My Way - with a reported budget of almost $25 million, the costliest Korean motion picture ever produced - is that it does nothing by halves.
- So bloated that it's forever on the verge of bursting – a sentiment reflected by the film's overindulgence in ear-splitting pyrotechnics.