I didn't understand this movie. I got the basic premise, that a ship full of criminals being extradited from the Philippines is on its way to Korea, and somehow the criminals get loose. Cue bloodshed.
Wikipedia doesn't have a synopsis, so I had to use IMDB reviews, which say basically nothing about the plot, making me wonder if the movie had one (for I was unable to detect one myself). There is a guy in the movie whose eyes appear to be stapled closed, and a couple of the reviews on this site mention something about a Japanese experiment on the boat waking up and killing everyone. So maybe the eye-staple guy was the experiment.
Everybody kills everybody else in this movie anyway. The director has allegedly said that two-point-five tons of blood were used in the movie. I'd believe that. The movie is less "gory", or even "graphically violent", than it is "bloody". There is blood everywhere throughout, gushing and spraying and leaking from wounds. Everybody ends up covered in blood, making them even harder to tell apart.
Because, boy, are they hard to tell apart. No, I don't mean "they all look the same". I'm not a racist idiot. I mean the movie totally fails to differentiate its characters from each other. That's the main problem I had with it. We just see a bunch of people on a boat killing each other in boring violent scenes and spraying blood on each other (and themselves). The movie doesn't have a main character, or really any character. Main characters are our passage into a movie. We get to know it through their eyes. Here I felt totally at a distance from everything.
Let me just say something about the violence. It being "bloody", not "gory" makes it pretty boring. The violence is probably the only reason anyone will see this flick. It's got an R18+ rating for violence here in Australia, which isn't that common. You go to an R-rated horror/action flick expecting to see some really creative gore. "The Sadness" was pretty creatively violent, and that was only rated MA15+. Here, the violence isn't interesting or creative. It's all in the blood.
Wikipedia doesn't have a synopsis, so I had to use IMDB reviews, which say basically nothing about the plot, making me wonder if the movie had one (for I was unable to detect one myself). There is a guy in the movie whose eyes appear to be stapled closed, and a couple of the reviews on this site mention something about a Japanese experiment on the boat waking up and killing everyone. So maybe the eye-staple guy was the experiment.
Everybody kills everybody else in this movie anyway. The director has allegedly said that two-point-five tons of blood were used in the movie. I'd believe that. The movie is less "gory", or even "graphically violent", than it is "bloody". There is blood everywhere throughout, gushing and spraying and leaking from wounds. Everybody ends up covered in blood, making them even harder to tell apart.
Because, boy, are they hard to tell apart. No, I don't mean "they all look the same". I'm not a racist idiot. I mean the movie totally fails to differentiate its characters from each other. That's the main problem I had with it. We just see a bunch of people on a boat killing each other in boring violent scenes and spraying blood on each other (and themselves). The movie doesn't have a main character, or really any character. Main characters are our passage into a movie. We get to know it through their eyes. Here I felt totally at a distance from everything.
Let me just say something about the violence. It being "bloody", not "gory" makes it pretty boring. The violence is probably the only reason anyone will see this flick. It's got an R18+ rating for violence here in Australia, which isn't that common. You go to an R-rated horror/action flick expecting to see some really creative gore. "The Sadness" was pretty creatively violent, and that was only rated MA15+. Here, the violence isn't interesting or creative. It's all in the blood.