Although ostensibly a disaster film with an erupting volcano threatening to bring total destruction to the Korean peninsula, ASHFALL is very much a military thriller in which the volcano is merely there to give impetus to our characters. A top cast of talent sees Ha Jung-woo and Lee Byung-hun teaming up to go on a secret mission to retrieve a nuclear warhead and use it to blow up the volcano before it has a chance to erupt. They're aided on their mission by computer scientist Ma Dong-seok but they have various international powers after them too. The usual mix of humour, action, sentiment and suspense drives this one forcefully from beginning to end, and it's all entertaining in a crowd-pleasing way.
Review of Ashfall
