Typhoon (Korean Movie)

This is touted as the most expensive Korean movie ever made. It tells a tale of a Korean terrorist, Jang Dong Gun, bend on exacting revenge on both North and South Koreas.
As a young boy, he and his family defected to South Korea. Through trickery, they were returned by the South Koreans to the North. In attempting to escape the whole family were slaughtered except for the young boy and his sister, but even then they became separated.

Falling into the hands of SEA bandits he grew up with them and gained leadership of a pirate group. The movie starts with this group hijacking a covert US ship transporting nuclear weapon kits. Jang Dong Gun intended to sell these kits to Pakistan but the deal fell through and he had to do a deal with a Russian general in a black-market trade.

This is where Lee Jeong Jae comes in as a South Korean agent tasked with preventing Jang Dong Gun from using these weapons of mass destruction.
The chase leads to Jang Dong Gun's long lost sister who became his bait to trap Dong Gun. Jeong Jae learned Dong Gun's past from the sister and felt sympathy for them.

The sister was shot when Dong Gun escaped from Jeong Jae's men and he implemented his plan to destroy both the North and South Koreas with contaminated nuclear waste material he'd gotten from the Russian general. His plan was to hide in a typhoon and release balloons lifting drums of these materials and detonating them when they are over the Korean peninsula.
The fight between these 2 men climaxed onboard the ship in the midst of the typhoon, with a US submarine waiting to sink it.

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Cast:
Jang Dong Gun
Lee Jeong Jae

Rating: 2/5
Nothing original here. My personal opinion is that this movie doesn't show where all the money went to. The ending was cliche as the villain became a good guy at the end and never set the load to auto-detonate in the first place. It's a cop-out ending. When Korean movies are bad, they are very bad and this one is no exception. Most expensive but I really don't see where the money went.