sergelamarche Epic story of a pair of rival soldiers making it through world war two, slaving for several armies. Stupendous recreations of war combat, sometimes surreal. This film is catering to the boy in us that has no fear and wants all sorts of adventures. Many events of the film seems exagerated a notch but I can't hold it against it because the truth is often incredible. We do feel the passion and adventure and I applaud the film makers for this different view point. Great film.

Andrei Minin Sorry for bad English.The movie director, of course, is good at shooting epic, bombastic, spectacular and ambitious movie. I like Korean movies - they work hard on making good movies with reasonable budget.But for anyone interested in the history of that time... to be short: half of the movie, I did not know whether to laugh or to cry.By movie story line it looks like that where the Koreans, there is a military defeat: 1. The main character took in the Japanese army - and the Japanese got big issues on Khalkhin. 2. They joined Soviet army - and Germans almost reach Moscow. 3. When Germans captured the main character - Soviet began counterattack. 4. Finally, the main character finds himself in the Wehrmacht in Normandy just before the Allied landings...I haven't seen such harsh Red Army in overseas movies before, thanks! ;-)For whom this movie has been made? Koreans in this movie - stupid, cowardly, slightly cruel. Japanese - very stupid, suicidal and wildly violent. Soviets? Ice demons of hell and Vigil chaos. Germans? (Honestly could not watch the whole movie, but I can assume that meticulously cruel)PS I am going to slight a couple of prisoners Asians because I got into fuss while writing this review... (Don't take my review seriously because if you take this movie seriously you may take seriously my comments too). I will this movie to my collection.

moshtheboss After decades of being fed pretty much only British and American movies on world war 2, globalization is having a great effect on the movies concerning that era in human history. For the first decades after WW2, we in Western Europe, mostly got holier-than-thou movies on glorious Allied victories (Longest Day),fantasized heroic tales (Where Eagles Dare) or pure 'fun' movies (Kelly's Heroes). Even a movie about a defeat (a Bridge Too Far) was turned into a'ridiculing-the-Germans' tale. Those diving deeper into movies made about that dark period in history would discover non-English classics like Das Boot, Talvisota, Come and See and Die Brücke. 'Mai Wei' is a truly epic movie based on a Korean named Yang Kyoungjong. Here are the historical facts about him; In 1938, at the age of 18, Yang was in Manchuria when he was conscripted into the Kwantung Army of the Imperial Japanese Army to fight against the Soviet Union. At the time Korea was ruled by Japan. During the Battles of Khalkhin Gol, he was captured by the Soviet Red Army and sent to a labour camp. Because of the manpower shortages faced by the Soviets in its fight against Nazi Germany, in 1942 he was pressed into fighting in the Red Army along with thousands of other prisoners, and was sent to the European eastern front. In 1943, he was captured by Wehrmacht soldiers in Ukraine during the Third Battle of Kharkov, and was then pressed into fighting for Germany. Yang was sent to Occupied France to serve in a battalion of Soviet prisoners of war known as an "Eastern Battalion", located on the Cotentin peninsula in Normandy, close to Utah Beach. After the D-Day landings in northern France by the Allied forces, Yang was captured by paratroopers of the United States Army in June 1944. This is his story in a nutshell. Reading the above may have taken you less than a minute. Yet the movie shows us this tale in 137 minutes. And much, much more detail and fantasy is added to the storyline to make it a truly epic tale with special effects that more than often put Hollywood's abilities in 2011 to shame. The movie is never dull, never predictable. The battle scenes are what you may expect from an Asian movie. They have a gift for them. I shall not give you more detail and spoilers and I will end with saying if I ever decide to make a list of my 15 favorite WW2 movies, this one WILL be in it.

Hunky Stud from the beginning of the film, it is already predictable that the main protagonists will not die. so no matter what he goes through, you already knew the end result. then is it really possible for a female to use a gun to shoot down a warplane? i am not an expert, but it seems too unreal. then it seems that the only solution for her exit is to die. otherwise, her existence will interfere with the progress of the film. It seems like an epic film with quite a few predictable story lines. these kind of things simply don't happen in real life. It didn't make me feel emotional.