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10/18/08
JSA - Joint Security Area (2002)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:8
Rotten:3
Average Rating:6.9/10
Runtime: 2 hrs
Genre: Foreign Films
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: This Korean thriller mines the historic tension between North and South Korea over activity in the JSA, the Joint Security Area, a region guarded by armies from both counties. When two North Korean... [More]
Reviews for JSA - Joint Security Area
1 - 13 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Top CriticPark tries to make us believe that the men soldiers on both sides would have no trouble bonding if ideologies and uniforms didn't get in the way of things.
09/25/07
No review available.
01/09/07
Além do impecável senso estético de Park e de seu imenso talento para a narrativa, o filme traz uma bela mensagem humanitária e anti-bélica.
05/07/06
No review available.
10/10/05
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09/26/05
It’s another triumph from one of the world’s best new filmmakers, and it is not to be missed.
07/16/05
Suspenseful and psychologically rich.
06/16/05
A beguiling mix of the generic and the unfamiliar, and it ends on a shot that's nothing short of heartbreaking.
06/15/05
I can't be as enthusiastic.
06/15/05
Park Chan-Wook's Joint Security Area is a fairly straightforward whodunit with a pointedly political theme and an unapologetically humanist message.
06/15/05
Top CriticPark's film reveals its double agency by swinging between emotion-charged flashbacks of weepie male bonding and the investigative longueurs of the icy, half-Korean, half-Swedish female officer in charge of mopping up the brotherly bloodbath.
06/14/05
An intelligent murder mystery set at the only meeting point between North and South Korea, whose tragic solution reveals the war zone's tension between hate and humanity.
03/11/03
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