The leader of the Qing army oozes perverse villainy. You want him dead as soon as he smiles. Nam-Yi can dispense of regular mooks left and right, but his main adversaries are a cadre of Manchu master bowmen.
The odds are stacked against him. He wears his regular clothing and travels by foot, the Manchu archers are on horseback and wear red studded-leather. They even look more menacing, with tips like shovels crossed with axes. The Manchu master bowmen occupy that odd yet familiar space in villainy: the specialist henchman. The main baddie might be pervy and megalomaniacal, maybe even cartoony in his or her displays of evil, but the specialist henchman is a consummate professional.
The lead Machu archer has a certain admiration and envy for Nam-Yi, but only to a point. Loading, please wait Free 2-Day Shipping. Same Day Delivery. Please select a store. Shop all Millennium Media. Deliver to Edit zip code. Ship it. Only 2 left. This item isn't sold in stores. Help us improve this page. About this item. Run Time minutes : Software Format: DVD. Parents need to know that this movie features repeated violence by frightening, spider-legged and penetrative machines, in particular directed against a year-old girl.
Her high-pitched screams and tears might alarm younger viewers. The aliens blow up streets, buildings, and cars, explode or zap some humans into dust, and literally suck the blood out of others this last occurs in long shot, but it's clear what's going on.
In one scary scene, a mob of humans attack Ray and his kids in their car again, the girl's reaction is disquieting. The movie also includes some harsh language, tense scenes between Ray and his son, and Ray and his ex-wife, and Ray commits what he sees as a necessary murder off-screen. Add your rating See all 38 parent reviews. Add your rating See all kid reviews. A brief game of backyard catch reveals immediately that Robbie resents his dad's absence and selfishness.
But the domestic strife soon takes a backseat to the gargantuan trauma brought on by an alien invasion -- lightning strikes awaken towering Tripods, machines on long spider legs that push up from under the streets of Bayonne, NJ, the pavement buckling and cracking as people, including Ray, watch in astonishment.
What comes next is a prolonged look at unthinkable devastation, framed by one family's reactions. In part, this focus is achieved by Ray's quick thinking -- he steals the only working vehicle in sight, determined to drive the kids to their mother in Boston, imagining against odds that this end will provide safety.
Gangbusters effects and terrific camerawork propel Steven Spielberg's film well into its last act, when it runs out of energy and ideas. This collapse is especially disappointing because War of the Worlds begins as a provocative look at how terror affects family and community, that is, something more complicated than an explosion movie. If the first part of the film offers an absorbingly detailed look at the family's dysfunction, the ride in the minivan tightens the focus, as they struggle to make sense of the disaster unfolding around them.
No, says Dad, this "came from someplace else. Indeed, two of the most awful scenes involve people fighting each other. This and other particulars -- a monstrous surveillance eye on a sinuous, seemingly endless arm invades Harlan's basement; clothes from disintegrated victims float through tree branches; a peanut butter sandwich Ray has thrown at the kitchen window slides almost imperceptibly down the glass as he wonders what to do next; Ray asks a man who appears to have survived a plane crash, "Are you a passenger?
The film's last minute breakdown is really the loss of such clever details. Families can talk about the conflict between Ray and his teenaged son, which ignites several arguments: the boy doesn't trust his emotionally distant father, and resents his seeming selfishness in trying to save the family only and not seeking revenge against the aliens.
How does the movie compare Ray's reaction to that of a survivalist holed up in his basement? How does Ray learn to be a more committed father by paying attention to his kids? How does the film marginalize the kids' mother, and to what effects for viewers? Common Sense Media's unbiased ratings are created by expert reviewers and aren't influenced by the product's creators or by any of our funders, affiliates, or partners.
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Original title: Choi-jong-byeong-gi hwal. Play trailer Action Adventure. Director Han-min Kim. Han-min Kim screenplay. Top credits Director Han-min Kim. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Photos Top cast Edit. Park Hae-il Nam-yi as Nam-yi. Seung-ryong Ryu Jyushinta as Jyushinta. Mu-Yeol Kim Seo-gun as Seo-gun.
Moon Chae-Won Ja-in as Ja-in. Han-wi Lee Gap-yong as Gap-yong. Gu-taek Kim Kang-du as Kang-du. Jae-goo Lee Hu-man as Hu-man.
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