Byeong-cheol Kim, Gam Woo-seong, Kyeong-ho Jeon
When a group of soldiers is sent to Romeo Point, their mission is to track down a squadron of missing soldiers that disappeared six months earlier. But the longer their hunt drags on, the more difficu...( read more
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DVD Release Date: February 14, 2006
Stats: 303 reviews
the koreans have done it again! first half is beautiful cinematography with an eerie sense to it and the second half is mental breakdown time. who is an enemy? who is not? what is the enemy? you have to see it. there's no point explaining it. it's claustrophobic! it's hell! it's ...( read more)
Too dark, hard to keep track of who is who and whether they are dead or not, so some of the scares were deflated due to confusion. And then the J-Horror-Goth-Chick shows up amongst all these men. Not enough focus to this decently concepted ghost story.
Part war, part ghost story. R-Point finds the perfect mix between the two. A slow and unnerving pace may not be best for high speed gore fans but it's all worth it for the final terrifying scene.
As a rule, I am not generally a fan of horror movies.
A horror movie set in the heart of the Vietnam War, R-Point builds the tension throughout the movie, as the story behind "Romeo Point" gets unraveled further and further by the platoon sent to extract survivors. There are n...( read more)
effective ghost story..a bit confusing which took away some of the more eerie moments..but delivers on atmosphere aplenty
R-Point
This movie stumbles often. It is very similar to the WW1 movie I think is called Deathwatch with Billy Elliot and Golem - this one might even have come out first. However, it has the same problems and maybe even makes it more mistakes with using the premise of ghosts mak...( read more)
R-Point is a Korean film that is sort of a cross of the horror and war genres. Notice that I say "sort of" because director, Su-chang Kong, is going for an "antiwar" movie. This makes sense because the plot revolves around military soldiers, but not around them fighting ...( read more)
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