The Battleship Island (A review)

Άτικα.
Aug 27, 2017 · 2 min read

Don’t get me wrong. When I watched dunkirk it’s 100% because of Harry Styles in the movie, but I watched TBI not because of some random korean drama artists. Just no. I realized I like war movies (after watching dunkirk) and I’m a really bad historian for Japanese-Korean past histories. I̶ ̶k̶n̶o̶w̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶s̶o̶u̶n̶d̶ ̶d̶u̶m̶b̶.̶ ̶B̶u̶t̶,̶ ̶I̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶e̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶l̶e̶a̶r̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶w̶a̶r̶ ̶f̶r̶o̶m̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶m̶o̶v̶i̶e̶.̶ ̶G̶o̶d̶.̶ ̶B̶a̶s̶i̶c̶.̶

So, anyhow this is my review:

  1. hm. where to begin with. Oh all the blood and special effects were good and fascinating. Yet at the end of the movie when joong ki slice the head. It was overrated. I think something is wrong with the editing part.
  2. I like the story line. Even though it’s too dramatic based on rottentomatoes. But well it can’t compared to dunkirk. They need the story line to be like that to engage our miserable feelings into in. They need the stories to be that bad and all tangled up. t̶h̶a̶t̶’̶s̶ ̶h̶o̶w̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶k̶o̶r̶e̶a̶n̶ ̶d̶r̶a̶m̶a̶ ̶r̶u̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶i̶r̶ ̶b̶u̶s̶i̶n̶e̶s̶s̶. I like it, from the family, group of friends, betrayal to the nation, people’s naive and how colonization were done back then perfectly summed up in the movie.
  3. Back to the blood and special effects, It is too much. Whoever watched it will agree, it’s just too much and too intense. Maybe that’s why it’s ratted 21+ in Indonesia, even though I can see a lot of teenagers artist’s fans who I doubt already reaching 21 were watching it. It’s actually a good movie to fulfilled your dark side, anyhow. As a fan of thriller, I can said the special effect were not dumb and realistic enough.
  4. I like how it stirred up my emotion.

Favourite scene was :

after joong ki slayed tencho head and he said “ie ni kaerimasu”. I was shoot to dead. It was too sad, no words can describe how I love jong ki when he said it. How the line perfectly perfect for the situation. I just can’t.

not a solid 10/10. It was 9.8/10 from me. because of how they ruined the last scene as I mentioned in point 1.

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