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09/26/05
JSA - Joint Security Area (2002)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:8
Rotten:3
Average Rating:6.9/10
Runtime: 2 hrs
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: This Korean thriller mines the historic tension between North and South Korea over activity in the JSA, the Joint Security Area, a region guarded by armies from both counties. When two North Korean... [More]
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Reviews for JSA - Joint Security Area
1 - 13 (sorted by source)
Suspenseful and psychologically rich.
06/16/05
Além do impecável senso estético de Park e de seu imenso talento para a narrativa, o filme traz uma bela mensagem humanitária e anti-bélica.
05/07/06
It’s another triumph from one of the world’s best new filmmakers, and it is not to be missed.
07/16/05
No review available.
10/10/05
I can't be as enthusiastic.
06/15/05
Park Chan-Wook's Joint Security Area is a fairly straightforward whodunit with a pointedly political theme and an unapologetically humanist message.
06/15/05
Top CriticAn intelligent murder mystery set at the only meeting point between North and South Korea, whose tragic solution reveals the war zone's tension between hate and humanity.
03/11/03
Park tries to make us believe that the men soldiers on both sides would have no trouble bonding if ideologies and uniforms didn't get in the way of things.
09/25/07
No review available.
01/09/07
A beguiling mix of the generic and the unfamiliar, and it ends on a shot that's nothing short of heartbreaking.
06/15/05
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10/18/08
Park's film reveals its double agency by swinging between emotion-charged flashbacks of weepie male bonding and the investigative longueurs of the icy, half-Korean, half-Swedish female officer in charge of mopping up the brotherly bloodbath.
06/14/05
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