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.
8 March 1944, South Korea
4 March 1986, South Korea
18 March 1961, South Korea
30 April 1963, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
16 August 1982, Arlington, Texas, USA
21 June 1990
2 February 1977, South Korea
1 June 1972, South Korea
29 August 1990, Ventura County, California, USA
13 May 1956, Portland, Oregon, USA
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.
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 14, 2014
Don't look for character development or deep meaning, but THE TOWER is a real roller-coaster ride.
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.

