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  • 2016
  • TV-14
  • Asian Media Rights (AMR)
  • 2 h 6 m
  • 2016
  • TV-14
  • Asian Media Rights (AMR)
  • 2 h 6 m

Summary Jung-soo, an ordinary car dealer, is on his way home with a birthday cake for his daughter. As he drives into a tunnel, an unbelievable thing happens; the tunnel collapses on him. Minutes later, he realizes that he is completely caught in between the debris. Outside, this breaking news creates a media frenzy and a thoughtless reporter ev...

Directed By: Seong Hun Kim

Written By: Seong Hun Kim

  • 2016
  • TV-14
  • Asian Media Rights (AMR)
  • 2 h 6 m
  • 2016
  • TV-14
  • Asian Media Rights (AMR)
  • 2 h 6 m

Tunnel

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
68
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 11 User Ratings
7.4
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Summary Jung-soo, an ordinary car dealer, is on his way home with a birthday cake for his daughter. As he drives into a tunnel, an unbelievable thing happens; the tunnel collapses on him. Minutes later, he realizes that he is completely caught in between the debris. Outside, this breaking news creates a media frenzy and a thoughtless reporter ev...

Directed By: Seong Hun Kim

Written By: Seong Hun Kim

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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17% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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80
Sep 7, 2016
Infusing its nightmarish scenario with bracing doses of satirical humor, Tunnel is smarter and more sophisticated than most Hollywood attempts at the genre.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
75
Aug 25, 2016
A harrowing spectacle that makes one forget to breathe.
By Tom Keogh FULL REVIEW
70
Sep 7, 2016
Kim successfully captures the loneliness and entrapment underneath the debris and the chaos outside.
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70
Sep 7, 2016
While Kim Seong-hun’s Tunnel sounds like it resembles any number of creepy tunnel pics or grand catastrophe epics, it’s actually a lean, enjoyable disaster story with enough distinctive elements to make it feel relatively fresh.
By Jay Weissberg FULL REVIEW
67
Sep 7, 2016
Too often the mechanisms of plot can be felt, the beats of the story seen, and the obvious intentions of the story heard in a line of dialogue. So, while at times it’s easy to see the great film that Tunnel could have been, that never stops it from being perfectly watchable thriller that it is.
By Gary Garrison FULL REVIEW
60
Aug 25, 2016
Unfortunately, there’s not enough story here to warrant the film’s more than two-hour running time; 90 taut minutes tracking a week in the ruined tunnel would have sufficed. Still, it’s a vivid and relatable tale.
By Gary Goldstein FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 11 User Ratings
7.4
82% Positive
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Generally Favorable Based on 11 User Ratings
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82% Positive
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9% Mixed
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Production Company Another Sunday, BA Entertainment, History E&M, Sega Sammy Entertainment
Release Date Aug 26, 2016
Duration 2 h 6 m
Rating TV-14
Genres
Tagline When all collapsed, only hope remained.
Website http://tunnel-movie.net/
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Awards

Blue Dragon Awards
• 1 Win & 7 Nominations
Grand Bell Awards, South Korea
• 5 Nominations
Chunsa Film Art Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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