Noryang: Jugeumui Bada

I am from Belgium and little ingorant to the history of Japan/China and Japan.

I didn't even know which sides I was watching at the start of the movie.

However that became clear when I kept watching.

This is a movie about a massive sea battle that took place around 1600. The costumes, the ships and the acting is all very well done.

The changing fortunes of battles kept me also engaged, however some tell its nog 100% historical accurate.

I loved this movie, I hope you will too.

There is not alot of movies that are purely about sea battles, this one if very well done. Even if alot of cgi was used, which you will see during the movie.

As a history lover, the movie was painful to watch from beginning to end. Sure, artists can take certain liberties while telling a story, but nothing in the movie was true to what actually happened.

The order of battle of complete nonsense. The portrayal of factions completely one dimensional: the Japanese are all demonic and fanatical, the Chinese are cowardly and useless,. The Koreans are all heroic and invincible. If that was true, why did the war drag on for seven long years in the first place? How did they manage to lose almost all the land territory without Ming China's help?

At any rate, a thoroughly disappointing movie. More of a caricature than anything else.

Entire movie is talking, talking, talking, translating from Chinese to Korean, adding the time of this movie to be a lot longer. Fine, this is how it actually happened, using translators. Then 30 minutes of amazing battle scene and then 20-30 minutes of slow motion of the battle scene that completely killed the entire movie. Why? Why waste my time slowing everything down for that long? I guess the director and the editor keep falling asleep when they watch the movie and forgot to edit things out or dragged the slow motion and fell asleep. At a certain point the battle becomes repetitive, the scenes of people's reaction is beyond repetitive. The banging of the drum should be normal pave to keep the momentum of the fight and then gradually slow it down. But nope.. total one hour wasted watching this 2 hours and 30 minutes movie.

Korean filmmaker once again distorted history by portrayed their rightful and supremacy pride, dismissed chinese contribution.

The Chinese Ming's admiral portrayed as traitor and coward actually considered as hero in china and korea. He is griefing when hear the dead of admiral Yi.

Later his descendant even come to korea and become Gwangdong Jin clan. How his descendant feel when see this distorted movie discredit their ancestor ?.

In part I too (The Admiral: Roaring Currents), the director portrayed Admiral Yi's heroism with only 13 turtle ships when in reality he got help too from Ming's navy.

I believe there are inaccuracies in many Korean historical movies as they often portray events in a way that may not align with historical facts. This movie again proves my point because it is misleading and does not represent the actual history. It is essential to acknowledge that during the invasion, Korea was in a vulnerable position and relied on China for support. Japan most likely would defeat Korea without China's navy. While stating this, I understand that sharing these views might provoke adverse reactions from some individuals. However, it is crucial to realize that distorting historical events will not change the reality of the past.

Besides the historical inaccuracy, this movie is slow and puts me to sleep. I was only awakened by the battle scene. I would not recommend this work to any historical movie lovers.