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3 days ago · The high-concept South Korean army thriller “Escape” clocks in at a swift 94 minutes long. It could have easily gone on longer. There’s simultaneously too much and not enough action in this intriguing, but underdeveloped story about a North Korean defector who, after ten years of military service, flees to South Korea.
5 days ago · Escape (2024) Review. When the Korean War ended in an armistice in 1953 the anti-communist film became a mainstay in the South Korean film industry, going through a golden era during the remainder of the decade, and one which continued well into the 1960’s (so much so that, in 1966, a Best Anti-Communist Film category was added to the Daejong ...
3 days ago · For a film that depicts an escape inherently riddled with deeply perilous danger and risk, Escape finds so many of its narrative outs through convenience. Lee escalates its thrills in ways that certainly possess a narratively clever function, yet they contain so much circumvention of military bureaucracy and cat-and-mouse games of deceit that just barely squeeze by in Kyu-nam’s favor that ...
5 days ago · In general—if you go into Escape expecting some thoughtful examination about North-South Korean relations, you will leave disappointed. However, if you’re looking for a relatively short (the movie is 1 hour 34 minutes) and action-packed way to get a feel of South Korea’s existential woes, Escape is worth a look. • • •
4 days ago · In “Escape,” the latest South Korean thriller directed by Lee Jong-pil, a soldier named Im Kyu-Nam (Lee Je-Hoon) fights to escape North Korea and build a better life for himself across the DMZ ...
2 days ago · The action film about a daring escape from a Northern soldier harkens back to the overtly nationalist action films from the US in the 80s and 90s in many ways. With a very stringent depiction of life in North Korea under the rule of Kim Jong-Un’s regime, without actually naming the dictator in the film, Escape plays into the 80s action film stereotypes with aplomb.
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