The Front Line

This movie puts a fine point on the tragic pointless futility of fighting over Aerok Hills in the Korean war. The territory changed hand dozens of times. The only progress was in lives lost. The final battle was absurd with captains sacrificing their men for one last bloodbath even after the armistice was signed. I was not particularly impressed with how they handled the female sniper as this plot point felt contrived. Worth watching but flawed.

A very entertaining Korean war movie, not better than "Tae Guk Gi" but great. This one leans to the side of drama, more than horrific war sequences, but there's still great action and some gore in it. There's some interesting and prevalent sentiments that you can pick up on the Korean war only when watching a Korean production, it was a civil war, after all, and it's easy to forget that, but in 1950 the people north and south of the 38th parallel didn't have many differences and they knew it.