After a garbled opening this South Korean flick eventually develops into a pleasantly bombastic Bond-style adventure.

| Jul 13, 2022

Typhoon is a goofy mess, plenty exhilarating in all the right spots, except for the character ones.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 5, 2008

As mad as meth-fried badgers having shoes thrown at them... and makes about as much sense.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 27, 2007

As desperately overblown as anything Hollywood has ever concocted.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 27, 2007

Bad acting butts heads with bad-ass action.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 27, 2007

Large chunks have been lost in translation.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 27, 2007

Limps along like an arthritic dog.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 27, 2007

Like a poor man(TM)s Tony Scott movie.

| Apr 27, 2007

Pure action-thriller adventure is ruined with an overly melodramatic second half.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 27, 2007

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 12, 2006

Caught up in a triple vortex of poor scripting, unexciting action and leads you couldn't care less about, the pic boasts good production values but little else.

| Aug 1, 2006

Typhoon aims high but misses the emotional mark in most instances, resulting in some awkward melodramatics.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 24, 2006

Director Kyung-Taek Kwak orchestrates all this with flair, but leading man Lee doesn't have much to offer beyond a steely stoicism, and Jang's histrionic villainy borders on the parodic.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 16, 2006

The movie delivers the same old American action-flick themes of catastrophe narrowly averted, but the Korean version alters the meaning from triumph to sorrow.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 16, 2006

A muscular Korean thriller that hearkens back to the monolithic Hollywood blockbusters of a decade or so ago-but not in a good way.

| Jun 13, 2006

[Jang Dong-gun]...is the main attraction, which almost compensates for the film's problems.

Full Review | Jun 4, 2006

It has a fair sense of documentary reality, and the action sequences -- from shootout to car chase to a commando takedown of a tanker on the high seas to a final knife fight -- are extremely well managed.

| Jun 2, 2006

[A] jamboree of Cold War emotion and ham-on-a-spit acting.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 2, 2006

The action comes fast and thick, and the sentimentality reaches near-operatic proportions.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 2, 2006

In Typhoon, there are plenty of guns being fired in front of the camera, but behind it [director] Kwak apparently had his safety catch in place.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 2, 2006