With: Woo-seong Kam, Byung-ho Son,Tae-kyung Oh ,Won-sang Park, Seon-gyun Lee

(Please accept my apologies for any misspelling of names. It was not my intent. I am going by what I could read from the credits.)

Review by Larry Stanley

It looks like we will never escape from Viet Nam. We had "Apocalypse Now", "The Deer Hunter" and now the Iraqi war. But in the middle of that we are gifted with this nice little gem from Korea.
Turns out that during 1972 a squad of Korean soldiers was sent to a desolate island to check out the disappearance of another squad who went missing with only one survivor six months before. Now headquarters is getting messages from them.
Made with very little gore and a great deal of suspense, "R-Point" is scary and able to keep you watching without any naked girls with big plastic boobs running around. And you have to wonder just how long it will be until Hollywood gets it's hands on it and butchers it into a splatter fest.
A young Lieutenant named Choi Tae In (Kam) is assigned to take a platoon to the area to search for the missing men. At the site Choi finds an abandoned building, surrounded by the graves of those who have entered R-Point in the past. But before the platoon even gets started on finding what is going on, they find that one of the men in their platoon, turns out to be one of the missing men they were sent to find.
'R-Point' has all the needed parts for the perfect late night horror fest. Scary music, a dark jungle, mysterious and deadly adversaries for our heroes and lots of still bad and festering emotions from many viewers.
Director Su Chang-Kong has now moved into the forefront of both cinema and horror. Like I said, expect some hack in Hollywood to be at work even now, not searching for someone to write something original, but for a story like this to butcher and turn into another crap-fest like most attempts to move film from the Asian mentality to the American fast-food, guts and boobs horror film.
"R-Point" was an exceptional film, with a good story, and an chilling ending. It was the type of film I wish I could write. It was well made and the directors commentary was wonderful to listen to. There were also features on the making of the film, and creating the image of early 1970's Viet Nam.
This is a film to watch with others, if for no other reason then to see the looks on their faces.

Language: Korean
Region: Region 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number of discs: 1
Rating
Studio: Tartan Video
Run Time: 110 minutes
DVD Features:
Available Subtitles: English, Spanish
Available Audio Tracks: Korean Director's commentary
The Making of R-Point
Creating 1972 Vietnam
Special Effects feature
Trailer
ASIN: B000E0OBKQ