Despite a big budget, Park Chan-wook on the screenplay, and ten splendid minutes, this historical drama which skewers extras in spades struggles to surpass its ultraviolence.
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The action of the film takes place during the Imjin War (1592-1598), which saw Japan invade Korea. Photo Lee Jae-hyuk / Netflix
Published on October 11, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.
After exactly thirty-six minutes, a sudden urge to rewind. Need to take stock: how many extras have been skewered since the start of the film? Fifty ? Hundred ? Two hundred? A lot, that’s for sure, and now an avenger in a blue tunic comes down from the sky and launches into new carnage. No need to rewind, then: here we go again, we disembowel, we slit our throats, we shear, sixty-three men on the mat in one hundred and forty seconds. It’s a rough calculation, it all goes way too fast, but you get the idea: this film is about fighting, fire, blood, destruction, some slow motion and computer-generated images.
The story? Ah yes, history
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