Ratings: 7.0/10Genre: Action Disaster
Overall value for time and money: 6.5/10
From the trailers, one might think that the movie spends a great deal of time on the aftermaths of the massive Tsunami which hits Haeundae town. However, all the "action" and most of the exciting parts have all been revealed in the trailers.
An impending Tsunami brought about by a recurring chain of earthquakes was ignored by the authorities to evacuate the town. When the Tsunami finally did come, it brought with it irreparable damage and massive loss of lives.
Movie started by introducing the male protagonist's past, and how he came to promise the female lead's father to look after her. However, the movie doesnt just span around these 2 leads, there were also other characters which the film focused on... the female lead's best friend and his relationship with his mother, the male lead's sour relationship with his uncle as well as a Tsunami specialist and his divorced wife. The build-up of the story was good, giving sufficient screen time for each and every important individual and the story behind each and every one of them.
I got to emphathize with them even more and when the Tsunami finally struck, I could feel for the characters, which I thought this movie did great in even though there were many roles to focus on. But the "action" was shortlived as the disaster and the claiming of lives took only less than 30 mins of the screen time out of the 1h 40 min movie. Action was little too drama rama, with all the highly exaggerated screamings and the seemingly "time stopped still" sacrifices. But everything else was decent. One of the better melancholic Korean movies I've caught so far.
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