Typhoon

R

2005

1h 45m

Action

Drama

List

27%

Tomatometer

33 Reviews

46%

Audience Score

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.

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Critics Consensus

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

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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

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Steve Rose

Guardian

As desperately overblown as anything Hollywood has ever concocted.

Rated: 2/5

Apr 27, 2007

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Times (UK)

Bad acting butts heads with bad-ass action.

Rated: 1/5

Apr 27, 2007

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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

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Anton Bitel

musicOMH.com

what on paper just sounds like adrenaline-pumped nonsense turns out on screen to be a sensitive and surprisingly sombre study of the personal tragedies afflicting the divided Koreas.

Jul 2, 2007

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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

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Audience Member

The best Korean movie.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/13/23

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Kwak Kyung-taek

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Sin

Lee Jung-jae

Kang Se-jong

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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