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lol at the second half of this movie


First half is good, really good. However, after half of the movie, it gets waaaaay over the top. The jets scene is ridiculous, almost laughable. Korean is a strong country. It's not like America can do whatever it wants on korean land. Anyway a good entertaining movie.

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Why is the jet scene laughable? The American Government are the moral guardians of the world. They would have to do to save us all.

American foreign policy

We are here to help the World, because inside everyone there is an American trying to get out. God Bless The United States of America

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you have a very naive weltanschaung my friend. The US has been sticking it`s nose into the world affairs since ending Isolationism after WW2. That said and done, I had just read the works Jonathan Swift.

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The U.S. sticks its nose into world affairs because it is the underwriter of global trade and global security. So when it comes to the various dictatorships and terrorists of the world that present a threat, then yes, the U.S. does that.

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Wow, you seriously don't get sarcasm, snark, or satire do you?

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We are here to help the World, because inside everyone there is an American trying to get out. God Bless The United States of America


This is seriously one of the more humorous comments I've read in awhile. Thank you for making my day.

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But by God we sure as hell won't actually let them into America. They have to be satisfied by idolizing us from afar.

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But by God we sure as hell won't actually let them into America. They have to be satisfied by idolizing us from afar.


Yes, very true. That's why we have so few immigrants in the US. *eye roll*

I mean, seriously. Did you even think before you typed that post?

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Just because a lot of immigrants make it in doesn't mean they're all welcomed with open arms or anything.

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The U.S. isn't perfect, but it is the underwriter of global trade and global security. If the U.S. stops doing this, Eastern Asia falls to China and North Korea, Northwest Asia, Eastern, and Western Europe all fall to Russia, and the Middle East falls to Iran.

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the spoon-fed fox generation. 

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Couldn't agree more, first half of the movie was very good and quite impressive, but second part of it was terrible.

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You're kidding, right? Or I assume you are American.

The US has been under the impression that they have sovereignty over every square inch of soil on earth for about sixty years now. The two wars they lost, Vietnam & Korea. The total failures of recent wars in Iraq & Afghanistan. How about even before modern wars, the CIA actually arming and training the mujhadeen and a chap who became quite unpopular, Bin Laden. The illegal espionage against private people of their 'allies' here in the UK and the rest of Europe.

The only way this film would have being going away from being believable is if the US were going to nuke it. Air strikes are not beyond the realms of fact.

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Actually, no it hasn't been under that impression. Nor were Korea and Vietnam lost. Korea the U.S. drove the North and the Chinese out of South Korea and back to basically where the conflict started. Vietnam was about stopping communism (you know, a very violent system) from spreading through and taking control over all of Vietnam. The U.S. won every major battle in the conflict, and South Vietnam then held up fine on its own for two years after U.S. troops had been pulled out. However, then Congress cut the funding and the North went in and slaughtered one million people (which was one of the reasons why the U.S. had gone in in the first place).

Invading Afghanistan was due to 9/11 to go after the terrorists. Invading Iraq was due to the perceived threat of Saddam Hussein. Neither one had anything to do with the U.S. thinking it "owns" either country (in fact, the U.S. had never wanted to go back to Afghanistan ever again, which was what led to it becoming a haven for Osama bin Laden and his terrorists).

And yes, the U.S. trained and armed the Mujahideen, in order to counter that minor world power at the time, the Soviets.

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I agree that the second half was not as interesting or intense as the first. Also, isn't it strange that around the time the mostly infected citizens begin marching that suddenly no one seems to be suffering from the symptons? Up to that point we have people dying from the disease or at least coughing left and right all over the place but once the plot deviates from the pandemic main theme to on the potential airstrike mode it's as if the people are no longer sick.

I get that the dying would not be able to march at all but it is still strange.

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I believe they might be the lucky 50% of people that either are immune or are expected to survive.

That being said, if they could see that 50% are surviving, why wouldn't they just grab someone with natural immunity and synthesise the blood from that person? Might be a bit easier than chasing the container kid or the little girl.


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As far as we know, only the little kid and the survivor from the container were immune.

And you're right, if the disease only affects half of the population then there would be no reason to chase the little kid or the container guy at all. Seems to me it was a case of the plot demanding it and the hell with logic.

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Did you actually watch the movie and read the subtitles and understand what was going on? Most of the rioters at the end were people who had been in Bundang but managed to avoid becoming infected. They were put in a separate quarantine area and were supposed to be released after 48 hours without symptoms, but then the government changed its mind. A few of the rioters were infected, but most of the people who had been infected to begin with were already dead at this point.

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Way too dramatic in the end, I agree and Americans won't be that disorganised.

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The movie could been good but they destroyed it by including propaganda against the United States.

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Yeah, those characters had atrocious accents and worse acting.

Must be full time TESOL teachers and part time actors.

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propaganda

when did reality became propaganda?
Oh, right, since you got brainwashed.

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For me the funniest moment is when the guy finds the little girl on a stadium full of bodies. Really? He just strolled in and found her after a tiny bit of searching. Also, the girl got better almost instantly, should it not take a bit longer for the bloody marks to disappear of her skin?

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I thought that was one of the most unrealistic moments. The girl was inside a bag, under bodies. Oh and she was dropped from like 40 feet high.

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Totally agree. Korea has one of the world's largest armies and it's well equipped to tell the Americans to #(%* off in a situation where they try to bully Korea during an epidemic on its own soil. The whole plot in the second half was totally ridiculous and it seemed as if they were going for some ridiculous Cold War, Cuban Missile Crisis type situation, which would never happen in this case. America might engage itself in some silly wars, but under no circumstances would an American guy (whose exact title and rank is never identified) be allowed to countermand orders given by the Korean president and strip him of his rank lol. Contrary to people wanting to believe that America is somehow pulling all the strings in the world, I'm pretty sure that guy would be jailed instantly if he tried to order an attack on Korean soil. That whole last half hour was insanely ridiculous. Did any Koreans actually think this plot realistic? That there would be a "pact" that could allow the Korean president to be stripped of his authority and outranked by some random American guy? lol.

It started off well and then just took a nose dive.

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Sorry, I know this is an old post, but I cracked up at the arrogant American archetype character (also popular in Godzilla movies). Don't forget, the WHO is merely a function of American militarized interests and using fighter jets to gun down a couple hundred Korean civilians on their own soil in peace time is precisely what the organization is all about. I KNEW that guy was going to be bad news, because A) mustache, B) over-enunciated American accent, and C) suspenseful music playing ever time he entered a scene.

I did like the movie over all, thought the quality took a massive dive during the last 45 minutes.

They're coming to get you, Barbara!

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haha, lol @ A, B, and C. :)

Yeah, a decent movie that might have been good or great if it didn't take things to an asinine level towards the end.

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I agree that the specific scenario in the second half was pretty silly, but, behind the melodrama and populist pandering, it does raise some interesting questions. What would happen if such a lethal virus broke out in a country that could not or would not exercise adequate quarantine and infection control? That probably wouldn't apply to S. Korea, but if it were a developing country, who knows what the rest of the world would do? For that matter, what should they do? Do you override the sovereignty of an individual country to protect the rest of the world?

Overall, I liked the movie despite the silliness toward the end. As others have pointed out, the acting was quite good. The child actress was terrific, and Hyuk Jang was quite charismatic.



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looks like we're going to find out

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