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Sector 7 (7광구), a South Korean movie about a group of people working on a oil drill site south of Jeju Island, South Korea. The beginning of the film starts in the 1980′s with the mysterious death of a crew member while working in the ocean below the drill site. The site is then shut down for almost twenty years and then the story resumes in the present day, when new crew members return to the site to continue searching for oil.
Mysteriously, people began getting murdered and blame gets shifted on one of the crew members who seems to be a little on the ‘slow side’. When the crew finally finds out what has been killing off people one by one, they are terrified. This movie although suspenseful and mildly comical at times, was not one of the best movies that I have seen this year.
The best performance by far was by Han Ji Won (한지원), who played the heroine and one of the main roles in the movie; it is not very often in Korean movies that you have a woman character with such a strong personality and Ji Won did a great job of playing a bad-girl, after seeing this movie I labeled her as being a ‘Korean Angelina Jolie’.
Overall, I would give the film 3 out of 5 stars. I watched the movie at Gangnam CGV (강남 CGV) with English subtitles, but it can also be viewed in English at Myeongdong Station, Guro, and Yongsan CGVs. For movies times, call 02-1330.