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  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Well Go USA Entertainment
  • 2 h 13 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Well Go USA Entertainment
  • 2 h 13 m

Summary This is a story about three million soldiers who fought in the war, not remembering the reason anymore, and died wishing for the end of it. In February 1951, in Korea, while the armistice negotiation still faces difficulties, the battle continues in the Eastern front line, on the Aero.K. A company commander of the South Korean army dies ...

Directed By: Hun Jang

Written By: Sang-yeon Park

  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Well Go USA Entertainment
  • 2 h 13 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Well Go USA Entertainment
  • 2 h 13 m

The Front Line

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Summary This is a story about three million soldiers who fought in the war, not remembering the reason anymore, and died wishing for the end of it. In February 1951, in Korea, while the armistice negotiation still faces difficulties, the battle continues in the Eastern front line, on the Aero.K. A company commander of the South Korean army dies ...

Directed By: Hun Jang

Written By: Sang-yeon Park

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83
Jan 18, 2012
This strong, assured Band of Brothers-style drama from director Jang Hun makes universal points about bonding, misery, loyalty, and the senselessness of war through a portfolio of soldiers.
By Lisa Schwarzbaum FULL REVIEW
75
Jan 18, 2012
The action in The Front Line is bloody and tense, but the movie also reduces war to its simplest terms, defining it in terms of the reluctant soldiers who know that only accidents of birth and location determined which side of the battlefield they inhabit.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
70
Jan 17, 2012
Tightly directed and well acted (even though many characters are cut-outs from every war movie you've ever seen), The Front Line shoehorns little known history into a familiar format, and it works.
By Ernest Hardy FULL REVIEW
60
Jan 19, 2012
A movie that reserves its final sickening wallop for a grueling half-hour that leaves you as emotionally battered as the soldiers are forced to return to hell for one last senseless round.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
50
Jan 20, 2012
Jang and screenwriter Park Sang-yeon recognize the situation's senselessness but can't resist ramping up the melodrama and celebrating the heroism of the battle-fatigued soldiers. These contradictory impulses, combined with the film's undercooked characters, make The Front Line a war movie not quite worth engaging.
By Glenn Whipp FULL REVIEW
40
Jan 19, 2012
While its tone and humanity offset the futility of each side's need for one crucial hill, much of this intense, honorable film is too drawn-out.
By Joe Neumaier FULL REVIEW
40
Jan 17, 2012
A huge hit in its native country, Hun Jang's epic doesn't lack for spectacle or incident: In addition to its war-what-is-it-good-for? moralizing, it also piles on bloody battle scenes, subplots involving a sniper and a supply chest, and a nihilistic last-minute twist. What you don't get is the sense that this pumped-up combat-fatigue chronicle is pandering-or, for that matter, particularly original.
By David Fear FULL REVIEW

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Production Company TPS Company, A-Po Films
Release Date Jan 20, 2012
Duration 2 h 13 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline Last battle of the Korean War
Website http://www.kouchisen.com/
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Awards

Grand Bell Awards, South Korea
• 4 Wins & 12 Nominations
Blue Dragon Awards
• 2 Wins & 10 Nominations
Buil Film Awards
• 4 Wins & 4 Nominations

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