On the day of the U.S. presidential election in 2024, a team of elite mercenaries embark on a secret CIA mission to abduct North Korea's politician in an underground bunker below the Korean Demilitarized Zone. However, they get caught in the crossfire which causes tensions to escalate to the brink of World War III.
Direction
Kim Byung-woo's single-location tension mastery.
Acting
Ha Jung-woo's physical descent into desperation.
Practical Effects
Bunker production design you can smell.
Director
Kim Byung-woo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ha Jung-woo performed most of his own stunts in the cramped 300-meter bunker set, filmed in a former military facility in Gyeonggi-do.
The film weaponizes real DMZ geography and inter-Korean tensions that most Western thrillers treat as abstract set dressing.
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