Typhoon (2005)
Average Rating: 4.2/10
Reviews Counted: 32
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 25
A pseudo-political thriller on the fritz, Typhoon drowns in its own heavy handedness and silly acting.
Average Rating: 4.7/10
Critic Reviews: 12
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 8
A pseudo-political thriller on the fritz, Typhoon drowns in its own heavy handedness and silly acting.
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A would-be North Korean defector still reeling over the killing of his family by the communist government when he was just a child determines to destroy the Korean peninsula in a tense, politically minded action thriller directed by Kwak Kyung-taek and starring Jang Dong-gun, Lee Jung-jae, and Lee Mi-yeon. When a vessel sailing a few hundred kilometers off the northeast port of Jt Long in Taiwan is hijacked by pirates and the National Intelligence Service learns that a nuclear guidance kit has
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All Critics (36) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (7) | Rotten (25) | DVD (1)
Like a poor manâ(TM)s Tony Scott movie.
Top CriticCaught up in a triple vortex of poor scripting, unexciting action and leads you couldn't care less about, the pic boasts good production values but little else.
Typhoon aims high but misses the emotional mark in most instances, resulting in some awkward melodramatics.
Director Kyung-Taek Kwak orchestrates all this with flair, but leading man Lee doesn't have much to offer beyond a steely stoicism, and Jang's histrionic villainy borders on the parodic.
The movie delivers the same old American action-flick themes of catastrophe narrowly averted, but the Korean version alters the meaning from triumph to sorrow.
It has a fair sense of documentary reality, and the action sequences -- from shootout to car chase to a commando takedown of a tanker on the high seas to a final knife fight -- are extremely well managed.
Typhoon is a goofy mess, plenty exhilarating in all the right spots, except for the character ones.
what on paper just sounds like adrenaline-pumped nonsense turns out on screen to be a sensitive and surprisingly sombre study of the personal tragedies afflicting the divided Koreas.
As mad as meth-fried badgers having shoes thrown at them... and makes about as much sense.
As desperately overblown as anything Hollywood has ever concocted.
Bad acting butts heads with bad-ass action.
Large chunks have been lost in translation.
Limps along like an arthritic dog.
Pure action-thriller adventure is ruined with an overly melodramatic second half.
A muscular Korean thriller that hearkens back to the monolithic Hollywood blockbusters of a decade or so ago-but not in a good way.
[Jang Dong-gun]...is the main attraction, which almost compensates for the film's problems.
[A] jamboree of Cold War emotion and ham-on-a-spit acting.
The action comes fast and thick, and the sentimentality reaches near-operatic proportions.
A testosterone-driven, Jerry Bruckheimer-style action film as overblown as its title suggests.
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