Sunday, October 12, 2008

The Guard Post

It is a mixture of suspense and horror within mystery in a army setup. But the f*cking problem is how the movie is shot or edited, the whole show was mixed up with present and flash back, in short scenes all over. Initially, it seems to not bad as it tried to build up the mood and suspense but when even after 1 hour 30 mins, this method of presenting the plot kept going, it got abit irritating and sick.

Military investigator Jin was asked to go and check out GP 506 as something horrifying happened. The whole platoon was dead overnight and he got only till next morning to find out what happened. From he arrived till he realized the truth, there are some scenes which are not bad, more towards the horror and shock element.

As he discovered clues, scenes are flashed back. But at the end, you got a bit pissed because as the truth was out, you realized most of the flash back were there to either lengthen the movie or to lead you on. The camp commander was the son of the chief of army, when he found out that
something was wrong with his men, he failed to report to HQ but then things gone wrong. A contagious virus infection caused the men to become violent for a period of time, he will do anything ... Like tearing into a dog using your mouth, butt stroke your mate to death, Hammering your own hand using a spanner, etc.

Only 20 out of 21 bodies were found. The one left claimed to be the camp commander, refused to talk and was transported back to HQ but due to a road block, had no choice to return back. Jin found out in the end but I don't think that was crucial, it was soldier Kwang who killed them all so as to stop the virus spread, maybe also stopped their torture.

But then the platoon who came in initially to check, Jin and his assistant, the MO, all got infected. Jin realized he also had to kill them all. 6/10

1 comment:

Mavis Ang said...

Did you notice how the better looking actors had less of the bubbly rash on their faces than those calafares? tsk tsk directors are biased. btu i thought the movie wasn't too bad...