Escape

2024 [KOREAN]

Action / Adventure / Thriller

28
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 71% · 14 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 87%
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 2202 2.2K

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Plot summary

After completing his required decade of military service and being honored as a hero, a North Korean sergeant makes a sudden shocking attempt to defect to the South, risking life and limb for the chance to finally determine his own destiny.

Director

Top cast

Song Kang as Seon Woo-min
Lee Jehoon as Im Kyu-nam
Esom as Nomad
Sung-Wook Lee as First Lieutenant Hong
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by tkdlifemagazine 7 / 10

A Gripping Human Drama

Escape (2024) is the latest release from Well Go USA. It is a gripping, compelling, human story coming out of South Korea. We have long hailed South Korea films as being some of the top in the world, and this film reinforces that sentiment. While it may be be fair to say that the closed off nature of the North Korean regime leaves much about what happens across the DMZ to the imagination, there is enough information from the historical data gathered from Defectors to paint a general picture of the conditions there. This film comes from the perspective, not of an ordinary citizen of North Korea who decides to defect, but from that of a solder. As the film lays out, the punishment for such an act is, ultimately, death. It is with that knowledge that we are riveted by the notion that a person would risk death for their freedom from totalitarianism; something most of us in the West take for granted. The acting is strong. Performances by Lee Jon-Hee and Kyo-Hwan Koo are the strength of the movie. They provide great depth, without superfluous dialogue. The action and Direction are very good here. It is brutal in spots. While the film does have some spots where you need to suspend belief; I don't think that hurts the appreciation of the vehicle. While the film may have a different reception in South Korea; it seems the film highlights the value of modern South Korea life. The film is best watched in Korean with subtitles.
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Reviewed by panta-4 5 / 10

Good acting...

It appears that North Korea is managing to capture attention, as evidenced by the films produced by their adversaries in the South. Director Lee Jong-pil's adaptation of the screenplay by Kwon Sung-hui and Kim Woo-geun ultimately lands in an ambiguous space. The narrative presents an intriguing yet underdeveloped tale of a North Korean defector who escapes to South Korea after a decade of military service, pursued by a relentless North Korean National Security officer, which introduces a degree of tension.

The inclusion of contextual flashbacks enriches this otherwise linear chase story, although these digressions occasionally disrupt the dramatic flow, prompting questions about the narrative's depth and coherence. The overall impression is one of incompleteness.

The initial segment of the film was particularly engaging, introducing the highly focused North Korean Sergeant Lim Kyu-nam (Lee Je-hoon) as he stealthily exits his barracks under the cover of darkness, evading guards and strategically placing markers on his route to the Military Demarcation Line. Lim meticulously navigates a literal minefield, with each night bringing him closer to his goal. Upon returning to base, he is faced with reminders of the urgency of his departure.

Another soldier, the anxious Kim Dong-hyuk (Hong Xa-bin), witnesses one of Lim's clandestine outings and expresses his desire to escape to the South, citing, "Tomorrow is my mom's birthday. I miss her terribly." In a moment of folly, he attempts to flee on his own, leading to Lim's capture while trying to rescue him. At this juncture, Kim takes the blame, and I will leave the subsequent developments for the film to reveal.

While the film is certainly watchable and offers moments of entertainment and action, with good acting as part of it, the latter half becomes increasingly disjointed, with numerous subplots left unresolved, ultimately detracting from the overall experience.

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