Rotten Tomatoes
Cancel Movies Tv shows Shop News Showtimes

Typhoon

Play trailer Poster for Typhoon R 2005 1h 45m Action Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist Tomatometer Popcornmeter
25% Tomatometer 32 Reviews 46% Popcornmeter 1,000+ Ratings
Sin (Jang Dong-gun), a modern pirate, witnesses the execution of his family, who had tried to defect to South Korea. Now, 20 years later and armed with stolen missile guidance kits, he plans to take revenge with a devastating nuclear attack on the entire Korean peninsula. It is up to a naval officer named Kang (Lee Jung-jae) to thwart Sin's plot and save the country.
Typhoon

What to Know

Critics Consensus

A pseudo-political thriller on the fritz, Typhoon drowns in its own heavy handedness and silly acting.

Read Critics Reviews

Critics Reviews

View All (32) Critics Reviews
J. R. Jones Chicago Reader After a garbled opening this South Korean flick eventually develops into a pleasantly bombastic Bond-style adventure. Jul 13, 2022 Full Review Steve Rose Guardian As desperately overblown as anything Hollywood has ever concocted. Rated: 2/5 Apr 27, 2007 Full Review Times (UK) Bad acting butts heads with bad-ass action. Rated: 1/5 Apr 27, 2007 Full Review David Cornelius DVDTalk.com Typhoon is a goofy mess, plenty exhilarating in all the right spots, except for the character ones. Rated: 3/5 Jun 5, 2008 Full Review Tom Hawker Total Film As mad as meth-fried badgers having shoes thrown at them... and makes about as much sense. Rated: 2/5 Apr 27, 2007 Full Review Saxon Bullock Film4 Large chunks have been lost in translation. Rated: 2/5 Apr 27, 2007 Full Review Read all reviews

Audience Reviews

View All (60) audience reviews
Audience Member The best Korean movie. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Caught up in a triple vortex of poor scripting, unexciting action and leads you couldn't care less about, the pic boasts good production values but little else. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member A melodrama about a divided peninsula, a botched asylum attempt, and terrorism as revenge. "Typhoon is a goofy mess, like a poor man's Tony Scott movie, [but] plenty exhilarating in all the right spots." "The action comes fast and thick, and the sentimentality reaches [operatic] proportions." "A testosterone-driven, Jerry Bruckheimer-style action film as overblown as its title suggests." Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Action packed movie with a not too shabby plot! But you just wonder why just one person would go and catch a cross country villain instead of a whole team?! A bit unbelievable! But still somewhat entertaining. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member it had to many elements to much story if thats possible i cared for the bad guy hes a tremendous actor good movie give a try its about love family war corruption and an awesome knife fight Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member Big budget Korean action drama about a modern day pirate with a serious grudge against both North and South Korea who threatens to unleash a nuclear cloud above both countries. It's all quite Americanized and resembles a Jerry Bruckheimer production at times, but it has its fair share of drama too as the back story and motives of the villain are played out. It's a pretty slick film with well staged action sequences but nothing we haven't seen before from Hollywood. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Read all reviews
Typhoon

My Rating

Read More Read Less POST RATING WRITE A REVIEW EDIT REVIEW

Cast & Crew

Lord of War 62% 85% Lord of War Watchlist Tears of the Sun 34% 69% Tears of the Sun Watchlist Unleashed 66% 75% Unleashed Watchlist Lockdown 58% 78% Lockdown Watchlist Double Impact 33% 43% Double Impact Watchlist Discover more movies and TV shows. View More

Movie Info

Synopsis Sin (Jang Dong-gun), a modern pirate, witnesses the execution of his family, who had tried to defect to South Korea. Now, 20 years later and armed with stolen missile guidance kits, he plans to take revenge with a devastating nuclear attack on the entire Korean peninsula. It is up to a naval officer named Kang (Lee Jung-jae) to thwart Sin's plot and save the country.
Director
Kwak Kyung-taek
Screenwriter
Kwak Kyung-taek
Rating
R (Strong Violence|Brief Language)
Genre
Action, Drama
Original Language
Korean
Rerelease Date (Theaters)
Jun 2, 2006
Box Office (Gross USA)
$139.0K
Runtime
1h 45m