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EMERGENCY DECLARATION Review: Measuring Terror At 30,000 Against All Odds

A pilot passes by someone he recognizes. A man gets irate with an airline clerk before resuming a grisly task in the mens’ room. A detective on the ground makes a gruesome discovery… These are just a few of the precursors that happen going into the next 140 minutes of nearly non-stop suspense in Han Jae-rim’s new aviation thriller, Emergency Declaration, from director Han Jae-rim, and starring Song Kang-ho and Lee Byun-hun among the roster. With a plane full of as many as 150 passengers headed from Incheon to Honolulu as its taking off, a mysterious man (Im Si-wan) plots something nefarious in the bathroom, and as the hours pass, it becomes clear that people are suddenly getting sick and dying from whatever is circulating on the plane. The illness is soon discovered as a bioweapon attack carried out by a disgrunted former employee of a company who had uploaded […]

Trailer: EMERGENCY DECLARATION Takes Terror To The Skies This August From Well Go USA

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Well Go USA is finally ramping things up this week with a new trailer for The King and The Face Reader helmer Han Jae-rim’s new high-altitude terror thriller, Emergency Declaration. The newest official trailer is making the rounds as the distributors etches a theatrical release for August 12. While investigating a terroristic threat that goes viral online, Korean authorities discover that a suspect has recently boarded an international flight bound for the United States. When a healthy passenger on the same flight suddenly dies a gruesome death of unknown cause, panic erupts both in-flight and on the ground. With steadily decreasing fuel and international refusals to offer aid, the captain and crew will be forced to take unprecedented emergency measures in an attempt to save the lives of their passengers. Emergency Declaration stars Song Kang-ho (Parasite, A Taxi Driver), Lee Byung-hun (Squid Game), Jeon Do-yeon (Beasts Clawing at Straws), Kim […]

EMERGENCY DECLARATION: Terror At 40,000 Feet In The Official Trailer

Lee B. Golden III

The Face Reader and The King director Han Jae-rim will finally have his day this August with theatrical and IMAX releases of his new high-altitude thriller, Emergency Declaration. The film firstly bowed at Cannes last year and efforts to settle on release dates that summer were further extinguished by new variants of the coronavirus which delayed its release plans into the new year at the time. AN AIRCRAFT IS FORCED TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY WHEN AN UNPRECEDENTED TERROR OCCURS INFLIGHT Veteran chief police detective In-ho (SONG Kang-ho) receives a tip about a man threatening a terrorist attack against a plane. While investigating, he discovers that the suspect has actually boarded flight no. KI501. Despite his phobia of flying, Jae-hyuk (LEE Byung-hun) decides to go to Hawaii for the sake for his daughter’s health. At the airport, he is distracted by a strange man who hangs around, speaking to them in […]

EMERGENCY DECLARATION Teaser Trailer: Song Kang-Ho And Lee Byung-Hun Tackle Unfriendly Skies

Lee B. Golden III

Premiering Out Of Competition at Cannes next week is The King helmer Han Jae-rim’s newest thriller, Emergency Declaration. The latest international teaser trailer is making the rounds from the reps at Showbox, with actors Song Kang-ho (Parasite) and Lee Byung-hun (Ashfall) top-billed to head the story of passengers aboard a plane forced to declare an emergency when an unprecedented terror occurs in flight. That’s pretty much it for the logline too, and the rest is up to what you can gather from the footage being offered, on top of the poster which you can view below. There’s unrest, upheaval and the constant threat of imminent danger that lends a lot to pick apart here. Acquisition news remains pending so don’t wait up too long, but keep this one on radar for sure.