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Take Point (2018)
Directed by Byungwoo Kim
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On the day of the U.S. presidential election in 2024, a team of elite mercenaries embark on a secret CIA mission to abduct North Korea’s politician in an underground bunker below the Korean Demilitarized Zone. However, they get caught in the crossfire which causes tensions to escalate to the brink of World War III.
Length 124 minutes
Actors
Ha Jung-woo | Lee Sun-kyun | Jennifer Ehle | Kevin Durand | Kang Shin-chul | Spencer Daniels | Malik Yoba | Julian Juaquin | Jorge-Luis Pallo | Jeff Bosley | Robert Curtis Brown | Shin Hyun-bin | Seon Uk-hyeon | Jack Lyons | Warzecha Wyka | Paul Meixner | Covalschi Liviu | Yaqub Khurram | Kaden Vu | Lee Sang-won | Min Moo-je | Andreas Fronk | Andrew William Brand | John D. Michaels | Gareth Fannin | Seong-Bong Ahn | Baek Gyeong-yun | Amy Aleha
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01/07/2019 | Movie Screen | Digital | Theater | 6 stars |
| (Average) 6 stars |
Viewing Notes
First Korean film of 2019 tho a 2018 release but new to my theater. Trailer looked good but wow is this quite an uneven mess of a film. The movie opens with a block of talky exposition that had me worried. Finally the mission kicks in (CIA orders a covert team of mercs to invade a North Korean DMZ stronghold to kidnap the Armed Forces Minister in a classified mission) then there’s some short downtime until the mercs realize things aren’t as they seem. Suddenly they are under siege from another elite force a la Kerberos Panzer Cops that pin them down and cause all kinds of problems. This is part of the movie where its at its best.
Weirdly this movie, half in English dialogue and half in spoken Korean, features Korean subtitles for the English but no subtitles for the Korean! Not sure if that’s how it was released to all theaters but that sucked. Fortunately most of the movie is easy to follow due to the action and most of the exposition is in English. But the dramatic parts between the Korean characters are just a guess but easy enough to figure out the general gist of the story.
I give it points for assembling a diverse group of Mercs and having some tight action between them and the armored soldiers that invade. The overall story is gobbly-gook about a US president and North Korea facing down a WWIII scenario on election day. Had this just been a straight men on a mission flick (Mercs hired to do the dirty work then double crossed) I would’ve appreciated it more. Ha Jung-woo is great as the lead Merc “Ahab” and it was cool seeing Kevin Durand as a merc.
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