Mini Movie Review



Director: Woo-suk Kang
Starring: Sung-kee Ahn, Kyung-gu Sol, and Jun-ho Heo

Silmido is a 2003 film which tells the story of 31 criminals who are transformed into soldiers through dehumanizing military training. The film, set in 1968, is intriguing until it loses focus during the last third of the movie. Performances, fortunately, are decent and quite impressive while production values are of high quality. The film also set a record in its native South Korea for selling the most tickets in South Korean film industry (only beaten recently by Tae Ku Gi)



Grade: B-