It has been called South
Korea’s Top Gun. In many ways
director Kim Dong-won’s Black Eagle (aka: Soar
Into the Sun) is a superior film, at least technically speaking.
The high-flying action
arrives in the domestic market on Mar. 12 from CJ Entertainment — both with its
original Korean language (with English subtitles) and as a separate
English-dubbed viewing option.
Remember, Top
Gun is 1986 film technology and there has been light speed changes in
the nearly two decades since filmmaker Tony Scott sent Maverick and Iceman
aloft to spar with MIGs at mach speed.
There’s another little
edge that Black Eagle has in making it a tad more compelling. While Cruise and Kilmer battled “generic”
MIGs, unless you’ve been living the life of an eggplant, the tensions between
South Korea and Kim Jong-un’s medieval dictatorship to north are very
real. Stuff that happens here could
actually happen.
For American audiences,
Jung Ji-Hoon (aka: Rain) is at least familiar to them if they caught Speed
Racer. He draws the lead here
as the hot-shot pilot who has the flying skills, but lacks discipline (sound
familiar). He’s good … he hits all the
right notes.
Yoo Joon-sang is his competition
and Shin Se-kyung is the eye-candy love interest, but the real draw for Black
Eagle are the action sequences, especially the tight flying stunts
through downtown Seoul.
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