R-Point
R-Point
| 13 August 2004 (USA)
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On 07 January 1972, the South Korean base in Nah-Trang, Vietnam, receives a radio transmission from a missing platoon presumed dead.

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Vashirdfel

Simply A Masterpiece

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StyleSk8r

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

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Bea Swanson

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

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Kaelan Mccaffrey

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

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gabridl

I've seen quite a few decent Asian movies. This isn't one. The plot is obvious. The characters are flat and silly. There's pointless yelling substituting for emotion. The setting is unconvincing. There's little tension or fear. The score is generic. The shots are crude. And the simple karmic ghost story does little justice either to the genre of horror or war. If you want something creepy and interesting, try Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Cure" (1997), or if you prefer something Korean, "Spider Forest" (2004). "R-Point" was a tremendous disappointment, especially considering the raves other IMDb posters have been giving it. I can only surmise that these reviewers have suffered the same fate as the characters in "R-Point": creeping insanity or supernatural possession. I'd say that's a case of revenge of "Ringu."

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kevin_crighton

When a message is received from a group of soldiers sent on a mission 6 months earlier, a second group is sent to find out what happened to them....R-Point is another in what is becoming almost a sub-group from the ghost story, being another one set around soldiers. There have been several over the years, The Keep, Deathwatch, The Bunker amongst others. And while not the best in the genre, R-Point does have it's moments.The cast give good performances, the direction Su-chang Kong is first rate, keeping the movie tense and atmospheric. And one of the good things, like I think good ghost and horror movies should be able to do, is never fully explain everything. Some of the best horror movies go for this approach, and it works here.It's not overly bloody, even though it does feature soldiers and guns. As I said, it goes more for atmosphere and tension than gore. And it does this quite well.It's a very well made movie, and worth looking out for.

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TheOnlyJorge

r-point is a cursed place on a battlefield where something terrible happened over thirty years ago. now a group of soldiers have found this place and are going to stay there while hiding from enemies.what these soldiers do not know is that this place is haunted by spirits of the past's dead. soon strange things begin happening and the men are not sure what they should do. many do not believe in spirits but what is happening cannot be explained any other way.r-point is a very scary movie in a non traditional way. it builds suspense and terror slowly by using the soldiers of the present and the ghosts in the past. the results are great, intense, and truly frightening.if you are a horror fan you need to check this one out, even if you do not like foreign movies. it is a great creepy film.

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William Holttinen

I checked this movie because it was rated better than average here. But I didn't like it, mostly because of the stupid, screaming, brainless soldiers that are all the time in the edge of mass hysteria, even though first there's no real reason for that. They scream, cry, shout and act like a bunch of baboons. And I can assure you, that's not the way a South-Korean soldier would act. The "horror" isn't really there, some really awful gore-like "effects", the atmosphere isn't frightening...blah blah blah...dialog is absurd from time to time. And in the end you are not really sure what was the whole friggin' point whit the .. well...no spoilers here.As a fan of gore, horror, medical abnormalities, shocks and so on, this movie offered me nothing but screaming soldiers running like headless chickens.But I must admit that OK, the ending was better than I thought.I fell asleep in the halfway of this movie in the first time...so...

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