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09/06/04
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Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004)
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Reviews Counted:40
Fresh:32
Rotten:8
Average Rating:6.7/10
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06/07/05
Worth seeing for its sheer otherness at a time when Americans are forced to look increasingly at the outside world for new information.
09/10/04
Top CriticIt's an overwhelming vision far more realistic and insightful than the wacky MASH unit through which most Americans have seen this period.
07/27/04
...take a number of its cues from Saving Private Ryan...it's overall tone, however, is more melodramatic.
09/02/04
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06/10/05
Even with its overemotional moments, it's more honest than most.
09/30/04
Top CriticI don't think I'll be the last Westerner who found it hard to sit through two hours and 20 minutes worth of melodramatic plotting, hysterical acting and brutally graphic combat sequences that are all shot in the same herky-jerky, dirt-sprayed, irritating
09/03/04
Brutal yet meaningful, agonizing yet touching, The Brotherhood of War is a harrowing but rewarding experience.
09/24/04
Top CriticLater scenes in Brotherhood make mad, passionate love with being cliched.
12/09/04
Shot on a lavish scale, the film unfortunately suffers from maudlin plotting and severe overacting.
09/07/04
The film does offer Western viewers rare access to another country's innermost anxieties and contradictions, and as such is a fascinating document.
09/02/04
Top CriticWhile it comes on like a flag-waver, it actually delivers something more nuanced.
09/02/04
Tae Guk Gi joins the ranks of classic war epics, besting many of the Hollywood movies it aims to emulate.
02/17/05
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06/07/05
Redolent of Saving Private Ryan and We Were Warriors, but almost entirely devoted to combat violence and sentimental interludes.
09/02/04
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08/16/07
Kang remains a superb technician, but somewhere the movie forgot to pack any genuine emotion along with its ordnance and K rations.
08/23/04
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03/01/05
In the rare moments when a rifle, grenade, howitzer, bayonet, dagger, fist, land mine, or flamethrower isn't being deployed, the film pushes its melodramatic plotline with soap operatic shamelessness.
08/31/04
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