The Flu

August. 16,2013      R
Rating:
6.6
Trailer Synopsis Cast

A case of the flu quickly morphs into a pandemic. As the death toll mounts and the living panic, the government plans extreme measures to contain it.

Jang Hyuk as  Kang Ji-Koo
Soo Ae as  Kim In-Hae
Park Min-ha as  Kim Mi-Reu
Yoo Hai-jin as  Bae Kyung-Ub
Ma Dong-seok as  Jeon Kook-Hwan
Lee Hee-jun as  Byung-Ki
Lee Sang-yeob as  Byoung-Woo
Cha In-pyo as  South Korean President
Kim Ki-hyeon as  Prime Minister
Park Hyo-ju as  Teacher Jung

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Reviews

Stevecorp
2013/08/16

Don't listen to the negative reviews

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InformationRap
2013/08/17

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

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Loui Blair
2013/08/18

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

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Guillelmina
2013/08/19

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

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paulclaassen
2013/08/20

Oh, wow, this was awesome! The Korean answer to 'Outbreak', but so much better without being melodramatic or predictable. The film so well depicts the ignorance of politicians and humanity's incapability of uniting and remaining calm during disasters. This was realistic, shocking and disturbing, and gets increasingly more intense as the film progresses. I did find the convenience element a bit overwhelming, especially with Hyuk Jang and Soo Ae's characters always ending up together despite the circumstances. Still, this was a really good disaster film, and so very possible.

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Mark Stromberg
2013/08/21

Koreans, our brethren in intelligence. I am proud of you and admire. South Korea occupies the 1st place on the level of intelligence in the world. Then it means something. Ukrainians - 2nd place, immediately after them, after the Koreans. What are the same they are good fellows, those Koreans who have made such a gorgeous, good movie. Although the film is about the epidemic and infected, and the theme supposedly is not new, but the story itself is just amazing. Very well thought-out storyline, and the same scenario. The camera work is beautiful, posing above all praise. The film raises a lot of emotions, how sad and joyful. The idea of a reunion with the little girl and two adults is not new, but in this work is very pleased, very correctly presenting as from a psychological point of view and from in terms of cinematography. Recently Koreans began making movies at the highest level, is not without drawbacks. But for the last period the South Korean cinema often shows itself in a more favorable light than Hollywood. I advise you to see this creation, if anyone has ever seen. Very emotional, especially in bright places, this work will bring you a lot of impressions. This movie - well worth viewing. 2 hours passed and having fun while watching. I have nothing more to add, how to say, that it is very good and great work ...

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jonnytheshirt
2013/08/22

I know some people who simply will not watched a movie with subtitles. Personally I barely notice them as I've one of those Star Trek implants, well maybe I don't however I can get very engrossed in a movie with subtitles and Flu managed that. This is very much a Korean version of Outbreak or Contagion, it has some stereotypical Korean characteristics, humour, drama, the textbook Asian emotive expressions - there's always some guy in a suit with a straight face raising his deep voice in a very controller manner to show he is serious - and honourable. Anyway I digress despite having a few ludicrous plot turns the Flu is a Korean epic executed with such great gusto, and done quite well, that you can't help but be pulled into it's South Korean Independence Day minus the aliens feel. It's popcorn all the way and the show is completely stolen by an actress who's not even listed here who played 4 year old Mirre; you're a stone cold killer if you have dry eyes at a certain point. Pleasant surprise epic disaster type movie.

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Paul Magne Haakonsen
2013/08/23

I have always enjoyed Asian movies, and Korea really do manage to release some really impressive titles from time to time. I hadn't really expected anything in particular from "The Flu" ("Gamgi"), and I was blown away by the intensity and gripping storyline that director Sung-su Kim managed to present here.Where as "Outbreak" from 1995 was great and the more recent "Contagion" from 2011 failed to impress, then "The Flu" steps right up here and proves that Korea can be a force to be reckoned with in terms of pandemic and epidemic outbreak movies. And in my honest opinion, then "The Flu" surpassed "Outbreak" by far and turned out to be a much more enjoyable movie altogether.The story starts off in Hong Kong where a group of people are illegally transported to Korea hidden in a container. Amidst the hopeful illegal immigrants is a sick individual. Upon arrival in Korea and when the container is opened, a ghastly discovery is made as the people inside are all dead. A new and high contagious and deadly virus manages to spread like a wildfire quickly bringing a whole city to its knees, forcing the Korean government to isolate and quarantine the population. Unable to find a cure to this deadly illness, time is running out and tensions within the quarantine zone are running high.Actually there are many more layers to the storyline, but that is as an overall whole the outline of the main storyline. This is not only a movie about a pandemic outbreak, but also about the crisis of such an outbreak on governmental level, citizen level and family level. And it works out so nicely, because the directed really is skilled at what he is doing.The movie is running high on tension and drama, which is quite nice, and it helps the movie to keep a great pace and you get attached to the characters in the movie and want to see what happens next.A movie is nothing without a good cast, and "The Flu" really had some nice talents on the cast list. Soo Ae (playing Kim In-hae, mother of Kim Mi-reu) really filled out her role amazingly and put on a rather impressive performance. And right up there alongside her was Hyuk Jang (playing rescue worker Kang Ji-koo) with an equally convincing performance. And they had really great on-screen chemistry. However, I was especially impressed with young Min-ah Park's (playing Kim Mi-reu) performance, for a child actress, then she was amazing in her role.There is a sense of grand scale on the movie, as you do buy into the seriousness of this outbreak that brings an entire city to its knees and threatens to sweep out to the rest of Korea. And there are many outdoors scenes in the city that really help add to this. And I will say that the camera-work and cinematography in "The Flu" was right on all throughout the movie."The Flu" is the type of movie that you have to watch, regardless of whether or not you like Korean movies or movies of this particular genre. It is altogether a great and high entertaining movie.

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