"Respect the mountain and take what it gives you." The film was kind of mix of reality and fiction. Though, in a few shots it was below par, at a time very much comparable quality to the recent CGI tigers such as Richard Parker and Shere Khan from 'Life of Pi' and 'The Jungle Book' respectively. They did pretty awesomely, but it was a much harder job than the big ape they had created earlier.
Go', the same visual effects team behind this film as well. I was excited to watch it after learning about the plot, because the Korean experimental films are quite fascinating as they are made in the most realistic way. The battle between the man and the beast only brings the bloody war that's going to change forever whoever involved in it. All the attempts go in vain, until the Japanese soldiers and Korean hunters team up and go after that last living tiger. But when the Japanese army chief obsessed with one particular magnificent tiger that lives in the mountains of Jirisan, summons all the hunters to get it. During the Japanese rule of Korea in the 1925, a fine hunter who lives with his son in the forest near a village has given up hunting since his wife's death. So I think the director did his best with the kind of screenplay he had, I would say the whole team effort was good. But turning them into a film is a tough task because they're one man's vision and not everybody share the same perspective, hence the disagreement surface. Reading this kind of story might work well because of we individually visualise them as what we want. From the director of 'New World' and second time working with the same actor. This time he donned in a hunter's avatar and his role was pretty inspiring. Īfter the stunning performance in the 'The Admiral: Roaring Currents', the Korean superstar Choi Min-Sik is back for another unique film. Very powerful movie, tense and very well edited. but they are on the opposite side of things - on the other hand you also have the Japanese here, who only are out for murder (yes killing animals - I'm calling it murder). Even Bambi comes to mind at places I reckon. this is not a circle of life kid friendly thing you'll be watching. They care about their cubs/family, they protect them too. Because no matter the animal, they have survival instincts too. you will have quite the ride ahead of you. If you see them as equal to us or even better than us in some regards. How you perceive this, will depend on how you view animals. While it is mostly CGI blood and Tiger/s (the latter actually all the time I reckon), it is not less harrowing and intense. But before that is the sentiment you see it: this is really violent and bloody. It is almost a fable, a fairy tale like story. It's also incredibly overlong, so by the end I really struggled with it. No blood poisoning in this movie, which increasingly becomes a fantasy as the running time goes on. It acts in human rather than tiger ways, it refuses to follow the laws of physics with impossible speeds and leaps, and it shrugs off devastating bullet wounds with ease. Even worse, realism disappears when the tiger's around. It's no LIFE OF PI and indeed during the action scenes I felt like I was watching a LORD OF THE RINGS movie. The CGI effects are sketchy at best, and downright poor in other areas (such as the wolves). Unfortunately, it's the tiger itself where this falls down.
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On the plus side, it's well-acted by the entire cast, particularly Choi Min-sik who brings his usual gravitas, and the realism of the era is brought vividly to life. I was in two minds about this one, being no fan of films about humans hunting animals, and indeed while certainly well-made, this lacks a certain something. THE TIGER is a Korean historical epic with a difference: this one's about the manhunt for Korea's last tiger, nicknamed the 'Mountain Lord' for its ferocity and resistance to capture.
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