Noryang: Deadly Sea (2023) User Reviews

A fantastic spectacle

[jjyang-25407 · 9/10 · 16 January 2024]

I found the movie to be a compelling take on Yi Sun Shin's final battle and one that was incredibly meaningful and full of historical quotes and moments. As someone who is an enthuisiast on the Imijin War, I found myself suprised by how well they demonstrated the complexity of the situation on screen.

The action was spectacular in spectacle and the director really showed the whole battle in a clear fashion that was also true to the historical narrative.

The final part where Yi Sun Shin is shot and his son carries on the beat of the drum actually happened and was overlaid with a beautiful shot overlooking the dawn.

Distorted history

[telyadi · 1/10 · 18 May 2024]

Korean filmmaker once again distorted history by portrayed their rightful and supremacy pride, dismissed chinese contribution.

The Chinese Ming's admiral portrayed as traitor and coward actually considered as hero in china and korea. He is griefing when hear the dead of admiral Yi.

Later his descendant even come to korea and become Gwangdong Jin clan. How his descendant feel when see this distorted movie discredit their ancestor ?.

In part I too (The Admiral: Roaring Currents), the director portrayed Admiral Yi's heroism with only 13 turtle ships when in reality he got help too from Ming's navy.

Slow motion is so annoying and pointless this could have been 1 hr 30 minute movie

[buildk · 1/10 · 21 May 2024]

Entire movie is talking, talking, talking, translating from Chinese to Korean, adding the time of this movie to be a lot longer. Fine, this is how it actually happened, using translators. Then 30 minutes of amazing battle scene and then 20-30 minutes of slow motion of the battle scene that completely killed the entire movie. Why? Why waste my time slowing everything down for that long? I guess the director and the editor keep falling asleep when they watch the movie and forgot to edit things out or dragged the slow motion and fell asleep. At a certain point the battle becomes repetitive, the scenes of people's reaction is beyond repetitive. The banging of the drum should be normal pave to keep the momentum of the fight and then gradually slow it down. But nope.. total one hour wasted watching this 2 hours and 30 minutes movie.