From what I have been able to discern this is a Korean War movie in which a squad of highly trained North Korean soldiers smuggle themselves into an area controlled by elements of the ROK (Republic of Korea) Army to accomplish two main objectives. Their primary mission is to neutralize a company of South Korean Special Forces and once that is accomplished their alternate objective is to kill the South Korean General Staff. To achieve the second task the leader of the squad has to meet up with a nice-looking spy named "Un Ha" (Hye Son Kim) at a predetermined location so that she can give them the exact area where the General Staff is located. As far as the overall merits of this movie is concerned let me just say that I have always found it quite interesting to see films pertaining to war from the other side's point-of-view and this particular movie certainly provides that. Unfortunately, most of the film contained either overt propaganda or an abundance of scenes in which the North Korean soldiers were supermen who attained their status through superior training and their complete faith and loyalty to the "Supreme Commander" (in this case Kim Il Sung). That being the case, the company of South Korean Special Forces had no chance against this small squad and were easily beaten to death by these masters of Taekwondo while sustaining no casualties to themselves. Likewise, they managed to gun down battalions of soldiers simply because they were expert marksmen while their opponents apparently couldn't hit the broad side of a barn. Now I realize that there are many martial arts movies which feature all kinds of incredible, super-human stunts and for that reason I suppose that some of these scenes should be taken with a grain of salt. Be that as it may, if this was a comedy I could probably cut it some slack as some of the scenes were so corny and preposterous that it was indeed quite hilarious. However, since this movie was intended to be taken seriously I feel somewhat obligated to rate it accordingly. Below average.
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