Worth seeing for its sheer otherness at a time when Americans are forced to look increasingly at the outside world for new information.
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09/10/04
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Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004)
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Rotten:8
Average Rating:6.7/10
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Reviews for Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
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 CriticBrutal yet meaningful, agonizing yet touching, The Brotherhood of War is a harrowing but rewarding experience.
09/24/04
Top CriticThe 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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03/01/05
The battle scenes are gripping and horrific, the special effects amazing, and the sentimentality overwhelming.
09/03/04
The 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
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
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.
09/09/04
Melodramatic and exciting view about a war (in Korea) rarely filmed.
09/02/04
Alternately brutal and schlocky, and occasionally both at the same time.
09/03/04
Top CriticThe battle scenes are amazing in their scope and vehemence. But in the breaks between fighting, the movie reminds us that the costs of war can exceed the loss of life and limb.
12/09/04
What really separates Tae Guk Gi from Private Ryan's ilk is that the conflicted Koreans fight desperately in their own backyard, as opposed to U.S. movie soldiers who are always on an adventure abroad.
11/12/04
Successfully 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 Critic...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
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