The Towering Inferno was a mega-hit back in 1974 as an all-star cast
faced hell atop a 135-story skyscraper engulfed in flames. It took awhile, but Korean filmmaker Ji-hoon
Kim has successfully pulled off a quasi-remake — at least with the same
elements of people trapped on the upper floors of a skyscraper in flames — with
his international box office hit, The Tower.
CJ Entertainment has a
DVD edition of this life-and-death action drama planned for a domestic launch
on July 2.
Kim hits all the right notes
with personal stories (and rivalries) that bring the action down the human
level combined with a series of well-staged action set-pieces revolving around
first the origins of the fire (a helicopter stunt) and then the ever-growing
menace itself. In Korean with English
subtitles.
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