Best New To Me 2021
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I discovered this while watching the special features on Arrow’s recent, amazing, release of Joint Security Area and instantly tracked down this old DVD on eBay.
A distinctly Korean film anchoring its action tropes, much like JSA, in the societal tension and danger between North and South Korea. Still, this is clearly a big budget action film with large strands of DNA borrowed from Jerry Bruckheimer, Michael Bay and John Woo. It also has echoes…