kwak yung taek

Director John H. Lee’s Operation Chromite was a lean, explosive espionage thriller that explored the trevails of a strategy that endured its own ample share of politics. The result was a costly victory that otherwise helped turn the tide on North Korea whilst celebrating the memory of the heroic squad that led point for General MacArthur’s siege at Incheon. Continuing the epic, cinematic war commemoration with a script by Lee Man-Hee and Jung Tae-Won, directing duo Kwak Kyung-Taek and Kim Tae-Hoon offer up Battle Of Jangsari, diving straight from a rocky boat and into roaring waters and the firey rollercoaster toils of war. The film’s discernible traits this time around exhibit the darker, more incommoding nature of such politics as the U.S. Navy mitigates with its own losses in the hundreds. Left to its own devices is Myeong unit, an battalion of more than 700 young, strong-willed, albeit meagerly-trained student […]

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