While he certainly has a talent for making stunning action scenes on a grand scale, director Hun Jang’s ability to create fully developed characters among the people fighting the war is what makes this movie so memorable. It tells the story of two armies fighting for possession of a hill that, in the long run means absolutely nothing to either side. They just keep fighting, trading possession of the hill back and forth, in some sort of deadly time-killing exercise while they wait for the powers to be to finish negotiation a peace treaty. The fact that they’ve been negotiating for more than two years is stunning; what happens when the treaty is actually signed will take your breath away as generals on both side decide that since the peace doesn’t take effect for 12 hours, it’s the perfect chance for them to commit to all out war while the final hours tick away.
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