Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Just perfect...

Best movie ever!

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

A story about enemies becoming friends, and how terribly wrong things turned for them. This interesting story can easily be divided into three acts. The first act sets up the criminal scene, where the killings took place. It is mysterious and the investigation itself is interesting as they try to put pieces of the puzzle together.The second act takes us back in time and set up the circle of friends. It tells us how the two soldiers from South Korea and two soldiers from North Korea met, and how they became close friends and shared anything from showing off their girlfriends to playing silly games together. It just proofs again soldiers from different countries can actually be friends instead of killing each other simply because their governments demand it. The film was a bit slow moving during this part, but it was nevertheless interesting.The third act takes us to the present again, as the past and present meet, and the investigation continues. This was very interesting indeed, but it does have an unexpected ending.

Dear Chan-wook Park, it was a really nice idea to make a film about male homo-social desire set near the Korean border. And it was damn provocative to set a woman right at the center of the investigation concerning the incident at the border. Alas, you cast the Korean equivalent of Anushka Sharma or something in that important role. That actress ruined this film a little bit. Even though the plot was far fetched (or do soldiers from enemy nations at borders actually get together? I don't know), it was a riveting film. The interactions between the soldiers from the two Koreas was electrifying. There was always a hint of danger and violence beneath their camaraderie. I was amazed by the almost effortless brilliance of the actors. Some of the best Indian actors could not pull off these roles effectively. It is an extremely depressing film at the end of the day. A lot of us take borders and our border patrols for granted. But your film shows how petty, ugly and violent it all is. I am sure some fools in Hollywood and Bollywood would remake this and ruin it completely. Especially Bollywood. I can imagine Farhan Akhtar and Hritik Roshan lining up already. Hope you can sue them if they ever try to remake your film. Best Regards, Pimpin. (8/10)

The Joint Security Area (JSA) refers to the North and South Korean border. A tense and formal area manned on both sides by armed soldiers. By day a South Korean tourist attraction manned by uniformed expressionless guards 8 feet apart, by night the sides withdraw to either side of a bridge in manned posts perhaps 100 metres apart. The no-man's land alongside the bridge is patrolled by teams who must be ever wary of the presence of booby traps or land mines.On one night though shots ring out, 2 North Korean soldiers are killed, apparently by a South Korean soldier named Sgt Lee Soo Hyuk on a road who has confessed but refuses to talk further. In fact neither side wants to talk about it.Lee Soo Hyuk is condemned by the Northern forces and protected by the South, with each party possessing such a strong bias a neutral investigation is commenced lead by Major Sophie Jean, a Swiss resident with Korean ties and a mastery of the language.In interviews and flashbacks the real story gradually unfolds, nothing is as simple – or funnily enough as complicated – as it first seems.It is not fair to the film to say much more, I will say that it takes time for the real events to unravel but it is worth the wait. Being a Park Chan-Wook film it is well acted and immaculately paced, and JSA also contains some moments of great innocence and humanity. In fact the final truth is far more 'boring' and human than anyone might guess from the serious tone of the first few minutes.The film is laid out in three chapters, the first shows the viewpoint of the investigators, the second the actual events from the soldier's point of view and the third the conclusion and ultimately the truth.JSA is never less than intriguing and even though it isn't as great as the Vengeance trilogy it possesses perhaps the strongest final frame in almost any film that I can recall.Final Rating – 8 / 10. A who-dunnit with a difference. An extremely effective drama with a strong cast, a great plot and the usual exceptional direction of a modern day master.

Joint Security Area is a complex early work of Park Chan-Wook, combining a military political thriller with a meditation on the brotherhood of man. Although it does not reach the heights of his later works such as Old Boy and Thirst, it is an early demonstration of his ample talent, and features several actors who would figure prominently in his later work.Tensions on the Korean peninsula escalate wildly in the wake of a shooting incident just over the North Korean border, in which a South Korean soldier is the culprit. A Swiss soldier of Korean descent is sent as a neutral investigator. However, what initially appears to be a story of international aggression by either one side or the other soon turns out to be something far more complex, and tragic.This film showcases the things that made Park Chan-Wook's later films classics. It weaves a complex, non-linear storyline with the innovative cinematography that make all of his films beautiful. Furthermore, the performances by Lee Young Ae and Song Kang-ho are powerful, prefiguring their fine turns in Sympathy for Lady Vengeance and Thirst, respectively.Although this film did not show the level of creativity associated with Park's best work, such as Old Boy, it is more than worthy of being sought out by fans of his other films.