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In January 1971, domestic airliner Korean Air F-27 departing from Sokcho, and bound for Seoul, is commandeered and diverted to North Korea by a mad bomber.
The characters are motley archetypes and include a pompous businessman, a newly-wed couple and a peasant with a live chicken that would be funny if they were not all about to be killed.First-time feature director Kim Sung-han filmed the chaotic action inside an actual F-27. He is precise also in his reconstruction of this darkest period in post-war Korea, when historic intra-peninsula tensions held everyone hostage to paranoia and mistrust.
A skeevy Simu Liu is his professional arch-rival called in for reinforcement when Noel’s bone-cracking, groin-stomping tactics – the humour is not sophisticated – prove inadequate against a mob encompassing black-belt martial artists, nice old women, the police and Katie’s psychotic Airbnb host .
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