A vengeful refugee-turned-pirate steals nuclear materials to attack and obliterate the Koreas in a Nuclear Typhoon. A top South Korean naval officer is assigned the task to stop his plans and execute him.
The movie delivers the same old American action-flick themes of catastrophe narrowly averted, but the Korean version alters the meaning from triumph to sorrow.
– Liam Lacey,
Globe and Mail,
16 Jun 2006
rotten:
Director Kyung-Taek Kwak orchestrates all this with flair, but leading man Lee doesn't have much to offer beyond a steely stoicism, and Jang's histrionic villainy borders on the parodic.
– Steven Rea,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
16 Jun 2006
rotten:
Typhoon aims high but misses the emotional mark in most instances, resulting in some awkward melodramatics.
– Laura Kern,
New York Times,
24 Jun 2006
rotten:
Caught up in a triple vortex of poor scripting, unexciting action and leads you couldn't care less about, the pic boasts good production values but little else.