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Rated: 2/5 Sep 16, 2020 Full Review John Berra Screen International Patently ludicrous but no less enjoyable for it, Ashfall is a rock-solid disaster spectacle bolstered by the savvy star...
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- Action, Drama
- Kim Byeong-Seo, Lee Hae-Jun
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Patently ludicrous but no less enjoyable for it, Ashfall is a rock-solid disaster spectacle bolstered by the savvy star pairing of Lee Byung-hun and Ha Jung-woo as unlikely allies tasked with a...
- Baekdu Goes Boom
- Tropes, from Hollywood to Seoul
- And More Tropes… from Baekdu to Halla?
With a purported US$17 million budget (large by Korean standards), Ashfall went all-out in recruiting A-listers. Box office king Ha Jung-woo plays Captain Jo In-chang, a South Korean Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) technician. Just as Jo and his wife Ji-young (played by K-pop superstar Bae Suzy) are expecting a baby, Mount Baekduin North Korea er...
Ashfall draws from the same tradition as epic Hollywood disaster flicks like Armageddon and Deep Impact. The formula of an unlikely grouping of heroes using nuclear weapons as a deus ex machina against a massive disaster has been done to death in American film and television. We see this formula play out to the letter in Ashfall, with mass evacuati...
Even if Ashfall borrows heavily from Hollywood formulas, it adds heavy coatings of Korean flavor due to its geopolitical context. The film belongs to a storied repertoire of South Korean dramas and movies featuring North Korea, a sub-genre that has its own tropes. Captain Jo and Agent Ri are the latest rendition of a South-North odd couple overcomi...
Stagnant since 1903, at an elevation of 2,744 m, a volcano erupts on Baekdu Mountain located on the Chinese-North Korean border. Armed with the threat of imminent eruptions, a team of uniquely trained professionals from South and North Korea unite.
- (6.2K)
- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
- Kim Byung-seo, Lee Hae-jun
- 2019-12-19
Oct 27, 2020 · Part of the line-up for the 2020 London Korean Film Festival, award-winning action film, Ashfall will be screened at select London cinemas in November. With fantastic CGI it would certainly be worth (safely) watching on a proper-sized screen if you can score a limited ticket.
Ashfall is like watching 6 movies at once! What begins as a standard disaster movie, with separated spouses and buildings collapsing in San Andreas style, ends with thriller twists, buddy cop comedy and family dramas.
Apr 8, 2022 · Ashfall is a wild mix of disaster films and military action films. Six minutes in, and we get a wild sequence of driving through an earthquake-ravaged city. Twenty minutes in, we’re heading across the DMZ.
