In the ocean south of
Jeju Island, The Eclipse oil rig has been given orders to pack up and return
home due to lack of progress. One day before they are set to go home, their
drilling accidentally stumbles upon a nest of unknown aquatic life. Soon after
discovering this new creature The Eclipse loses contact with the mainland and bodies
begin disappearing.
You remember that movie
about that sea creature that terrorized a bunch of people; the one or the ten
that you’ve seen? That is Sector 7. Despite some welcomed subplots director
Ji-hun Kym and writer Je-gyun Yun don’t stray far from the formula. Watching
the movie in its Korean dialect definitely had a positive influence. I feel
like I would be giving an unfair opinion if I’d seen it with subtitles. The
movie is well directed; I’d like to say well acted but there’s a language and
culture barrier that I can’t decipher, but when it was time to be scared, they
looked pretty darn scared. Unfortunately, the creature is CGI and some of the
kills that would have been grand as traditional props are watered down because
they’re computerized. In fact, the creature felt like it’s true capabilities
were limited which is a bummer, but make sense since there’s less than a dozen
cast members to potentially kill.
Sector 7 will keep your attention. There are enough subplots
surrounding the whole story to keep the viewer busy. There is no mystery about
the monster’s appearance, once it’s revealed it’s there to stay, but doesn’t
feel like it was fully utilized. The cast had good chemistry, as far as I could
tell; I developed a big-time crush on the female lead Ji-won Ha.
There are a lot worse
monster flicks out there. While formulaic, Sector
7 keeps the audience interested just enough to either not turn it off, or
come back and see what happens.
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