Saw it on the $14.99 shelves at Best Buy last weekend (never heard of it otherwise), so I read some reviews online and then went out on a limb and bought it.
It's a South Korean film about two brothers in the Korean War, told from a Korean perspective. Watch it in Korean with the English subtitles - as usual, voiceovers are crap.
As a war movie, it's incredible. It's "Saving Private Ryan"-ish as it has the fictional personal/family aspect to the story, but it does a good job of conveying the prewar, wartime, and postwar atmosphere from a soldier's point of view. The brother aspect of the story is, somewhat predictably, an allegory for the war itself. The movie does an excellent job of capturing the generally crappy civil war situations that you don't really hear about from an American perspective. The battle scenes are great too, but it's a character driven movie so they're just eye candy.
I'm not a movie reviewer, so I won't blabber on too much about it. Rent it, buy it, add it to your Netflix list, whatever. If you own SPR, this one should be in your collection too.
Anybody else seen it, or even heard about it before?
