Juyuso seubgyuksageun (Attack the Gas Station)

Juyuso seubgyuksageun (Attack the Gas Station) (1999)

  • 81% of users liked it
    (4,863 ratings)

Kim Sang-jin directs this riotous send-up of Korea's rigidly hierarchical society. A quartet of nihilistic losers including an alienated athlete, a longhaired burnout, a spaced-out artist, and a muscle-bound meathead take to knocking over 24-hour gas stations. Their initial success eventually… More

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Genres
Art House & International, Comedy
In Theaters
Mar 30, 2001 Wide

Critic Reviews

  • Kevin N. Laforest, Montreal Film Journal

    Overwhelmingly stylish, original and irreverent.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Arash X


    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… More

  • Tsubaki S


    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… More

  • El Hombre I


    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:… More

  • JY S


    I don't know anyway that anybody wouldn't want to look into this film after hearing the title. That is the first successful element of this film. Its <i>Attack the Gas Station</i> for heavens sake. After viewing this movie it is really easy to see why this… More

  • Christopher B


    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 portray… More

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