Ji-tae Yu, Kang Sung-Jin, Lee Seong-jae

Not satisfied with the money they got from robbing a gas station the previous night, four juvenile delinquents decide to return and start running the station themselves -- holding the staff hostage an...( read more  read more... )d collecting cash from the customers! A visually exuberant action satire in the tradition of Guy Ritchie's Snatch, Attack the Gas Station! provides a fascinating analogy of social turmoil in contemporary South Korea.

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4,204 ratings

R, 112 min.

Directed by: Kim Sang-jin, Sang-Jin Kim

Release Date: March 30, 2001

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DVD Release Date: June 25, 2002

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  • November 28, 2008
    Simple but fun comedy, very much teen-oriented, and still more funny, and less idiotic, than your average teen comedy from Hollywood (and plenty from asia too) Thanks in a big part to a well selected cast of actual young actors that do a solid job. Good to see that the film doesn...( read more)'t force any "learn a lesson" morale over the characters or any other cliche bullshit.
  • June 19, 2008
    Four anarchistic youths take control of a gas station and hold the owner and its' employees hostage until the gang makes enough money from unsuspecting customers.

    Sound ridiculous? How about when another gang shows up and are taken hostage? Then begins the grand finale: ...( read more)a standoff between a Yakuza gang, a group of young punks and a load of motorcycling pizza delivery boys and finally, the law.

    The point is, this is a fun film. Nice rounded characters in a simple plot filmed in a kinetic style that most viewers might find themselves carried by its' momentum.
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  • March 7, 2008
    was expecting more here...this was even on a "1000 movies to see before you die" list...I have no idea why
  • November 25, 2008
    Finally got around to seeing this and I gots ta say, it does live up to the hype. I liked how they kept our young villains villainous, for the most part. The flashbacks explained the assholes a lot, but they were still not made out to be tragic the way a Hollywood film would po...( read more)rtray them. A lot of fun for a movie that mostly takes place in a gas station.
  • July 24, 2008
    Pretty damn funny.
  • April 21, 2009
    Entertaining and crack-ish.
  • March 21, 2009
    An enjoyable hostage situation especially for those with make up and plastic faces. Not for phonies.
  • February 17, 2009
    Hmmm....

    Why people loved this film so much?

    it has some moments but nothing amazing...
  • February 15, 2009
    Silly absurdist fun & I like silly absurdist fun, the first half is somehow monotonous & irritating but after that it gets better, One thing that I liked about this was that it hadn't a forced morale or stupid sentimental cliches althought it was getting close to have some near ...( read more)the end
  • January 6, 2009
    If you are one of the few people that can actually enjoy a movie that has subtitles, then you should try this one. I had the added advantage of understanding the spoken language of this film(Korean), but sometimes the subtitles were even more hilarious than what was actually said...( read more). Most of the comic action is expressed in body language(not the nude kind), which is understandable in any language.

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