The Tower [Audio: Korean]
A cozy Christmas Eve is upcoming with many grand banquets in a 100-storey building. People are watching the snow,but the Christmas night suddenly becomes a scene like in hell when the building suddenly burns.
18 January 1967, South Korea
23 March 1958, Burbank, California, USA
18 March 1961, South Korea
24 June 1984, Ithaca, New York, USA
21 October 1985
11 January 1982, Daegu, South Korea
25 January 1984, Shanghai, China
10 March 1937, Pyeongyang, Korea
4 March 1986, South Korea
January 24, 1986 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
20 February 1960, Los Angeles, California, USA
13 May 1956, Portland, Oregon, USA
13 March 1962, Los Angeles County, California, USA
8 March 1944, South Korea
21 June 1990
6 January 1976, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
21 September 1972, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
2 February 1977, South Korea
29 August 1990, Ventura County, California, USA
12 May 1958, San Juan, Puerto Rico
12 February 1961, South Korea
January 10, 2013
"The Tower" may be skillfully executed as an effects-laden opus, but its miniature portraits in courage are ultimately too jerry-built to feel like anything but filler between the combustive set pieces.February 01, 2013
Kim Ji-hoon overdoses on visual fireworks in a way that smothers any human drama mustered by the sprawling cast, whose marquee names are treated as mere icing on the cake.January 10, 2013
Even at its best, The Tower is beholden to unearned emotional payoffs.January 11, 2013
There are exploitation films and then some, but this Korean twin-tower disaster epic takes the cake for callously evocative imagery and sentimental schlock.February 14, 2014
Don't look for character development or deep meaning, but THE TOWER is a real roller-coaster ride.