Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War.
If you’re in L.A., it’s palying at the Laemmle Fairfax, and every Korean in L.A. is coming to see it.
This is South Korea’s version of Private Ryan, only it’s better. It’s epic and huge and massive budget yet intimate and very human. It’s action packed, but shows that war is hell. It questions war even as it presentes us with a better enemy than the Nazis for today’s times — the North Koreans.
This is not just one of the best fiolms of the year — I believe it will join the list of great war movies of all time that includes Wings, Gone With the Wind, Full Metal Jacket, and Apocalypse Now.
Jerry Bruckheimer could learn a thing or two from it. So could you. Go now.
