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33% Rotten Tomatoes Written by Lee Man-hee Edited by Steve M. Choi Box office 50 million USD Languages English, Korean | 6.2/10 IMDb 2/5 The Guardian Music by Lee Dong-joon Director John H. Lee Production company Taewon Entertainment | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Directed by John H. Lee (Lee Jae-han) Produced by Jeong Tae-won
Lee Kyu-chang Starring Lee Jung-jae
Lee Beom-soo
Liam Neeson
Jin Se-yeon Initial release 8 September 2016 (Indonesia) Cast Liam Neeson, Lee Jung‑jae, Lee Beom‑soo, Jin Se‑yeon, Jung Joon‑ho Similar Liam Neeson movies, Korean War movies, War movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Operation Chromite (Hangul: 인천상륙작전; Hanja: 仁川上陸作戰; RR: Incheon Sangryuk Jakjeon) is a 2016 South Korean war drama film directed by John H. Lee and based on the real-life events of the Battle of Inchon, although it presents a fictionalised version of the historical CIA/US military intelligence operation "Trudy Jackson", conducted before the actual landing operation. It was released on 27 July 2016 in South Korea.
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Plot
The year is 1950, just a few months after North Korean forces have overrun most of South Korea. After a UN coalition led by the U.S. comes to the nation’s aid, General Douglas MacArthur devises a secret plan to attack behind enemy lines at the port city of Incheon. The risky strategem is opposed by leaders of the other military branches, forcing MacArthur to devise a clandestine operation to gather essential information from within occupied Incheon by coordinating a weeklong South Korean intelligence operation known as X-Ray.
The linchpin of this top-secret incursion, Captain Jang Hak-Soo of the South Korean Navy Intelligence Unit (a former North Korean Army officer who defected to South Korea after seeing his father executed in front of him by his fellow communist officers), and seven members of the X-Ray unit disguise themselves as a North Korean inspection unit and infiltrate the North Korean army command center in Incheon, coordinated by Soviet-trained Commander Lim Gye-Jin, a protégé of the North Korean leader, Kim Il-Sung. Their prime objective is to determine the placement of North Korean defenses (such as mines and artillery) and the tactical characteristics of the Incheon harbor, notorious for swift currents and major tidal surges and secure a lighthouse crucial to the landing's success.
Immediately suspicious of Jang’s "inspection mission", Lim attempts to impede his comrade’s investigation and orders his staff to monitor the new arrivals closely. The U.S. command relays MacArthur’s orders to obtain navigation charts showing naval mine placements in the harbor and prepare a strategy to assist the coalition forces with landing an amphibious assault in a narrow two-hour window between tides. When contacts within the South Korean military intelligence unit known as KLO (Korean Liaison Office, predecessor to current day South Korean Headquarters of Intelligence Detachment, or HID) warn Jang that time is running out to successfully complete the mission, he pushes his group to extremes. Meanwhile in Tokyo, MacArthur prepares Operation Chromite, an invasion force of 75,000 UN troops and over 200 warships to imminently depart for the Korean Peninsula.
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Reception
The film was number-one on its opening at the South Korean box office, grossing US$18.47 million. with around seven million tickets sold as of 5 December 2016. It grossed US$50 million worldwide.
It received 33% approval with an average rating of 49 percent from 18 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.