The Battle: Roar to Victory (2019)

The Battle: Roar to Victory: Directed by Shin-yeon Won. With Hae-Jin Yoo, Ryu Jun-Yeol, Woo-jin Jo, Kazuki Kitamura. Over a 4 day period, a fierce battle takes place between Korean independence militias and imperialist Japanese forces in Manchuria, China. The militia includes a master swordsman and an expert marksman.

“I know this is a Korean movie, so it is to be expected that the Japanese will not exactly be the good guys. And that would be perfectly okay. But the level of evilness and sadism with which they are portrayed is so extremely exaggerated, itu0026#39;s comical. You can see them laughing like cartoon villains while committing the most heinous atrocities you can imagine. All characters actually are very cartoonish, the entire film doesnu0026#39;t really seem to know what it wants to be. At times it feels like an action movie that doesnu0026#39;t take itself too seriously, in the next scene itu0026#39;s a serious war movie again. Itu0026#39;s a mess.”