The movie is set during the Vietnam war and a group of soldiers recieve a strange message from some other, presumably lost platoon and starts to investigate around R-Point that is Romeo-point. Soon they end up at an abandoned mansion which seem to be the last known location for the other platoon.
I was really excited about seing R-Point since it was supposed to be a combination of a war and a horror movie and it is, maybe not as good as I first had hoped for at first but still good though.
Mixing war and horror is a great idea, the movie entitled "The Bunker" did that but it didn't work for me at all so I was really hoping this would. Seing it from one side this movie is really good but seing it from an other side it's a bit slow and could've had more horror elements in it.
I'm a bit indecisive here about this movie and it's very hard to rate, it all depends on what you've seen before and what you're used to but getting into Asian movies and starting out with this one is not something I would recommend.
 
If you're into the Vietnam war and such, this movie has a lot of the typical war things to offer that you would wanna see and everything surrounding it. The enviroment of the whole movie and where it takes place has a lot going for it, it's dark, it's foggy and this mansion, deep in no mans land where the soldiers end up has a creepy atmosphere and a lot of the scenes in the movie has this genuine eerie feeling.
The problem I had with this movie was that it was way too slow, I'm used to slow paced Asian movies and have nothing against them because they usually make up for being slow, but this was just too slow for it's own good sometimes and that brings the overall feeling down a bit which is quite bad.
Except from being to slow for a too long time, the movie actually delivers some of what you've been waiting for. But if you compare all the "waiting time" towards what you actually get in the end, I'm sorry to say it's not really worth the wait.
Apart from a few nagative thing, I would actually like to recommend this movie to (some) people. It's psychological, eerie, interesting, visually great, has good actors, is beautifully directed and is shot to look creepy at some places which works well. And all that of course makes for a good movie.
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MOVIE YEAR: 2004
DIRECTOR: Su-chang Kong
WRITING CREDITS: Su-chang Kong
GENRE: Horror, War
CAST: Woo-seong Kam, Byung-ho Son, Won-sang Park
COUNTRY: South Korea
RUNTIME: 107 min
RATING: 7/10
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