Haeundae

aka: Tidal Wave
South Korea 2009, 120 minutes
Dir. Je-gyun Yun
In Korean with English subtitles
Rating: [M]
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Science Fiction

Topics: Disaster.

Feat. Kyung-gu Sol, Ji-won Ha

Aroview: Corny, king-sized Korean blockbuster of a mega-tsunami bound for Busan, and the marine geologist in a race against time to save the population.

There’s little to differentiate this latest disaster movie from a raft of others (2012 in fact has already rendered it obsolete), however those with a fatalistic attraction to mass annihilation are certain to lap up the film’s cheesy heroism and unadulterated self-destruction, with the barest of subtext about global warming thrown in for good measure.