R-Point (2004)

During the Vietnam War, a South Korean base receives a radio transmission from a missing squad, presumed dead, and sends a platoon to rescue the lost squad from the R-Point.

Director:

Su-chang Kong (as Kong Soo-chang)

Writers:

Su-chang Kong (as Kong Soo-chang), Yeong-woo Pil

Stars:

Woo-seong Kam, Byung-ho Son, Sun-kyun Lee

1 win.

Cast

Credited cast:
Woo-seong Kam	...	Lieutenant Choi Tae-in
Byung-ho Son	...	Sergeant Jin Chang-rok
Sun-kyun Lee	...	Sergeant Park
Won-Sang Park	...	Sergeant Cook (as Won-sang Park)
Tae-kyung Oh	...	Sergeant Jang Young-soo
Jin-ho Song	...	Sergeant Oh
Yeong-dong Mun	...	Corporal Byun Moon-sub
Kyeong-ho Jeong	...	Corporal Lee Jae-pil
Byeong-cheol Kim	...	Corporal Joh Byung-hoon
Ju-bong Gi	...	Captain Park
Nae-sang Ahn	...	Captain Kang
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
David Anselmo	...	James (as David Joseph Anselmo)
James Han
Dong-kyu Lee

Storyline

On 07 January 1972, the South Korean base in Nah-Trang, Vietnam, receives a radio transmission from a missing platoon presumed dead. The high-command assigns the veteran and decorated Lieutenant Choi Tae-in to lead a squad with eight other soldiers and rescue the missing soldiers from the R-Point. When they arrive in the location, they have a shooting and defeat a Vietnamese woman with a machine gun in a trench. Later, they find a tombstone telling that one hundred years ago, Chinese killed Vietnamese, dropped them in a lake and built a temple over the place, being a sacred location to the Vietnamese. While chasing the missing soldiers, weird things happen with the rescue team.

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Plot Keywords:

rescue | soldier | radio transmission | presumed dead | missing soldier | 

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Taglines:

He who sheds others' blood will not return ... NOT EVEN HIS SOUL ...

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Genres:

Action | Horror | War

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for violence and language

Details

Country:

South Korea

Language:

English Korean French Vietnamese

Release Date:

13 August 2004 (South Korea)

Also Known As:

Ghosts of War

Filming Locations:

Bokor Hill Station, Preah Monivong National Park, Cambodia

Box Office

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$6,744,984, 31 December 2004

Company Credits

Production Co:

CJ Entertainment, CN Film

Technical Specs

Runtime:

107 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital EX

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

User Reviews

A Interesting Vietnam War Horror Movie

A very unique point-of-view of Vietnam war from the Korean coalition soldiers, with a side of supernatural also. If you like movies such as, "Session 9", "Deathwatch", and "Below" you will like this one, although you will have to read subtitle.

The plot of this movie is very similar to the movie like "Deathwatch".

It is about a group of Korean soldiers sent on a mission to an island with some very bad juju going on. They are there to search for another group of Korean soldiers who have gone missing earlier. Between the Viet Cons, the ghosts, and the phantom American and Korean soldiers, They must keep their sanity if the soldiers want to return alive.

This movie is beautifully shot on location in Vietnam and Cambodia and also includes a building that will reminds you of the hospital in "Session 9". The ensemble cast is very good for their roles. But I do have problem with the filmmaker portrayal of the soldiers during Vietnam war. I truly think a military adviser during the making of this film will make the soldiers more like soldiers and less like boy scouts out on a field trip.