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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Hellen

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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Lucybespro

It is a performances centric movie

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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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Francene Odetta

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

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Dan Ashley (DanLives1980)

R-Point is essentially a small horror film that pays homage to such Japanese horrors as The Grudge or The Ring, but then also to classics such as Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket, and is a film I rate highly as an enjoyable and effective wartime ghost story.A disgraced Lieutenant, a stone cold Sergeant and a literal Dirty Dozen of the South Korean army's VD infected. You can tell that the brass doesn't care whether these men come back or not. They're expendable and the mission is damned from the start anyway. The only reason they're there is the incentive that if they complete the mission, they get to go home.Their mission is to enter R-Point, a strategic vantage point on an island between South Korea and Vietnam and find the missing men sent there and having disappeared after sending a very strange distress call back to HQ.R-Point is a cheap little horror film that makes the very most of what it does have to offer, and that is atmosphere and suspense. The visuals are beautiful, the location is beautiful and even if the dialogue is a bit silly at times, the actors do a damn fine job considering I don't know any of them.From start to finish, R-Point subtly builds tension and atmosphere and plays on the imagination using the power of suggestion, allowing for multiple agendas and outcomes to come of what happens throughout.Conventionally it doesn't do anything new but admirably improves an old and exploited genre that has seen a small comeback with the likes of Deathwatch and Outpost, relying on human drama, intrigue and multiple strand narratives to keep the audience guessing as to how the end will happen rather than what the outcome will most typically be.Untypically, its characters are all very different people with complex pasts and concerns in their lives. No one is typically maddened or emotionally disturbed by the war. In fact it is highly suggested that the toughest of the platoon's soldiers are liars who have barely even seen combat and are terrified by the prospect. Having said all that, I feel that the climax is a bit of a let down, in the sense that so much tension built is spent on revealing the not so clever conclusion. It saves itself by being kind of creepy and I suppose by giving a nod to classic Asian ghost stories. But it seemed like it was going to be different and it gave no real surprises.Still a fantastic film and very well made but don't hold your breath... if you can help it!

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atinder

It's 1972. Six months ago on an island situated south of Ho Chi Minh City and known as R-Point, nine Korean soldiers went missing. A radio transmission requesting help is still heard every evening... Now a rescue party - nine soldiers, has nine days to rescue the missing.While they are on the mission, they find shocking stuff and some see strange things like ghost in the places.This is a really good horror movie, it had great atmosphere and really creepy moments, also liked fact the fact , that they showed ghost in daylight, you don;t see that often in horror movies.I not sure, i don't think the subtitles where 100% rights, if they were, the word D***head was said a lot, which i did find unreal.Acting from everyone was really good

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Aphex Nobody

I really enjoyed R-Point, actually. The Korean War really worked as a setting for a horror film and the locations were just the right side of spooky, even in full sunlight.I won't go into too much detail, but there are some moments that did unnerve me a little. I don't spook easily, but when the lagging soldier takes the wrong fork in the trail and comes up behind 'his' platoon, I was far more chilled by the lack of anything really happening than some hackneyed 'boo' moment. Like Ringu, The Eye or several other Eastern horror films, R-Point relied more on creating an atmosphere than on gore or 'jumpy' bits.Acting was very good, and each soldier was believable in their own right - no stupid caricatures here, as are found in many films that place a bunch of squaddies somewhere they don't want to be (often aping, yet never bettering the 'Predator' lineup).The last section of the film was a little muddled, although there were plenty of things I did like there too. The Americans, for example (again, I won't spoil it).Really, the only reason this film doesn't score an 8 or a 9 from me is the culture clash prevalent in many Far East films when watched by a Western viewer; some of the plotting/exposition made little sense to me, not having been immersed in the culture at any point in reality.Well worth a watch, particularly if you like films with atmosphere and a healthy 'creep-factor'.

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poe426

Unlike most alleged "fright films," R-POINT boasts some very impressive-and very spooky- moments. For me, the spookiest has to be the scene where a pair of soldiers cut off from their platoon see what they believe to be their companions creeping stealthily through a field of high grass and fall into step alongside them... only to come to realize that they are, in fact, all alone in said field... Now that's spooky! I found only two flaws worth mentioning: one, the alleged "acting" of the "American" soldiers. One can overlook the sometimes "broader" performances of the Asian actors in Asian films- but to come across such a just plain bad performance by an English-speaking character in an otherwise acceptable ensemble is jarring. The only other bur under my saddle would be the scene where a soldier sitting on a step is suddenly drenched with blood from above. In the movie itself, no explanation is even attempted. In the extras, however, we learn that this was blood spilling from a helmet dangling above the unsuspecting soldier. Why this wasn't made clear in the movie itself is never made clear (if you see what I'm saying)... Overall, R-POINT is an often genuinely spooky movie. Just don't forget to check out the extras.

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