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Sieg heil ... NOT !
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Caught Brotherhood with T yesterday , and i must say i was a bit disappointed as the movie wasn't as great ( to me ) as the critics had claimed to be. It didnt exactly tug at my heartstrings as promised , although tears did well up in my eyes for a couple of scenes.
Carnage and gore galore ! I've never been an advocate of war , and this movies just reinforces my beliefs. To hell about what Bush says about a 'necessary' war to end the terror in Iraq. F**k that ! War has and will never be never been a necessity as a mean to end something , be it terror-related issues ( Iraq/Afghanistan ) or disputes between countries ( the brewing tension between Taiwan and China , and the Korean war half a century or so ago )
In 'Brotherhood' , the film takes place in 1950s Korea. North Korea was the aggressor and after much brainstorming in the theatre i managed to make out some facts regarding the Korean war and yeah , communism caused a war ( North was a communist state , South was US-protected ) between the two.
Anyway.
The movie had some really good effects , to the point that it made me squirm around uncomfortably in my seat while limbs and flesh were astrewn all around the place. However i was rather unimpressed by the lead actor where in many a scenes he actually RAN the whole length of an ongoing crossfire a few times UNSCATHED. I mean , what the hell. Its forgiven if he only did that stunt once and emerged alive but not 3 or more times. If anybody was that lucky , he should be made the commander if the entire battlelion right away. Damn.
Sadly , in war , innocent lifes will be taken inevitably. I was outraged to know that the Communist bastards actually massacred an entire village and it was not an isolated incident. What the F ? WIll doing that ensure a victory ? In Singapore , similar incidents were reported during the World war 2 when the Japanese soldiers rounded up people regularly and shot them at gunpoint if they were suspected to be 'spies' or something without even checking them , killing them based on their own assumptions. Shit.
Overall , i would give movie 3 / 5 stars. Minus 1 star for not being poignant enough to make me cry buckets , and another star for being a tad too slow .
