Thanks to its excess, and even at 140 minutes, Tae Guk Gi always entertains, just like Pearl Harbor and the rest of the best of Hollywood's dumb war movies.
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09/09/04
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Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004)
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Average Rating:6.7/10
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Reviews for Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
...it's not only one of the year's best films, but it may be one of the all-time great war movies
09/09/04
Shot on a lavish scale, the film unfortunately suffers from maudlin plotting and severe overacting.
09/07/04
Kang isn't just Korea's preeminent big-budget director -- he's one of the best big-scale filmmakers in the world.
09/07/04
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09/06/04
Fearless extremity...Brotherhood finally coalesces into an inescapable metaphor illustrating the madness of civil war.
09/04/04
A complex film about the minefield of loyalty and betrayal.
09/03/04
Top CriticA tough and honest film.
09/03/04
Top CriticThe battle scenes are terrifically filmed, often reaching Private Ryan's level of intensity, and despite your better judgment, you do get caught up in the melodrama.
09/03/04
The battle scenes are gripping and horrific, the special effects amazing, and the sentimentality overwhelming.
09/03/04
Epic in scope and violent in a way that every war film has to be since Saving Private Ryan, Taegukgi is a big-time movie that never loses sight of its human story.
09/03/04
Alternately brutal and schlocky, and occasionally both at the same time.
09/03/04
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
Many movies lose their way coming out of the second act, but few plunge from stirring to stupid as quickly or as fully.
09/03/04
There's nothing subtle in the symbolism of this operatic melodrama, in which emotion overcomes reason... (but) that runaway passion is also what drives the film.
09/03/04
...take a number of its cues from Saving Private Ryan...it's overall tone, however, is more melodramatic.
09/02/04
Melodramatic and exciting view about a war (in Korea) rarely filmed.
09/02/04
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 CriticSuccessfully combines audience-friendly sentimentality with absolutely grueling combat footage and an unexpected but unmistakable hostility toward the entire notion of war.
09/02/04
Top CriticRedolent 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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