D-WAR
BORE ULTIMATUM
by Vishal Verma

Rating:

What is it?
After some eight years in planning, production and post, South Korea's biggest-budget production by far (reportedly $70 million) sadly, turns out to be a gigantic crap of all Godzilla’s.

There is no spark of sense in this complicated monster adventure about two giant snake-type thingies wreaking havoc on Los Angeles. The flick has roped in about 10,956,379 $ (reportedly) and its fate in India needs a Harry Potter stick to create some magic at the box-office.

But this marriage of an A-grade CGM (computer generated monster) superior to Shim Hyeung Rrae's last monster outing "Reptilian") to a Y – rate script writer can be a good seller in DVD’s.

What is it all about?
Trying to figure out exactly what's going on here is impossible. Performers appear to be reading off cue cards. Time after time, characters literally say to each other, "What are you talking about?"

every 500 years, a girl is born who, at the age of 20, will grow a kind of giant glass energy ball inside of her, which must then be cut out—killing the girl—and offered as a sacrifice to either the “good” Imoogi or the evil Buraka, two giant serpents who will transform into dragons if they eat said magic ball. To explain all this, we have Robert Forster as the reincarnation of an ancient Korean warlord, and some truly fashion- and acting-impaired leads in Amanda Brooks and Jason Behr. The latter plays a reporter who rather hilariously leaves his black friend behind to get killed in almost every perilous situation.

What to look out for?
Later during the climax when Shim gets the two serpents fight for their survival is done brilliantly (though theirs is no logic behind this entire establishment).

What not?
Sense and sensibilities go for a toss over here its hard to explain.

Conclusion: This Korean block buster may still get some patronage among the DVD circuits and kids but I will still wait for another ‘Host’ to charm me with her monstrosity.