Good story, Not enough for a whole film

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

I feel like I wasted 2 hours on this movie. It supposed to be an action thriller, but my heart wasn't pumping with anticipation. Here are my reasons.1. I wasn't sure how the brother/sister's family became traitors. 2. The brother (Nam Yi?) looks too old to play the part. 3. The Netflix description mentioned Mongols but in the movie, the villains were Manchurians. 4. How could the brother know there was a tiger nearby? He kept screaming for the tiger. He was a stranger in foreign land in China. 5. How come the tiger only attacked Chinese (Manchuians) while sparing the Korean? Why Chinese tiger only attacks Chinese? 6. How can someone pull an arrow out of his wounded heart and still managed to shoot it accurately? 7. I think it's bit too harsh to burn the Manchurian prince alive. He didn't do anything to the girl. He didn't deserve such a horrific death. 8. I think it was too easy for the brother to find and rescue his sister and overcome the fierce looking soldiers. It reminds me of Rambo. 9. The endless supply of arrows.To be honest, I felt more connected to the main villain.

I watched it once and I want to watch it again less than a month after the first serving. It is that good. The arrow shooting scenes are, as expected, spectacular. The photography is second to none and the story is well told, even though it is a tad on the simple side. Nevertheless the movie is highly recommendable. This is the story of a brother who goes against all odds to save his sister from capture by raiders coming from China. Outnumbered but not outwitted, he will prevail after a hair-raising adventure. This is an original twist to a tale because we're used to watch sniper-rifle action at long distance in the modern world. Now picture a sniper-bow action and you'll get the idea. If you liked "Red Cliff" and "The Warlords"(Both Chinese productions) you will enjoy "War of Arrows" (Korean production) and won't be disappointed.

Its a must watch film especially for archery fans.. Most probably this might be the best archery movie you might have ever seen.Plot is as simple as that,"Elder brother Nam Yi being regarded as traitor's son with archery inherited in his blood becomes the Saviour of his abducted younger sister Ja in during Manchu invasion of Korea.This showcases not only archery but the thriller and the exciting screenplay makes the viewers to sit at the tip of seats. Kudos to the cinematographer and director.Being a Korean periodic movie everybody would be expecting unbelievable fights but what keeps the movie in track is believable sharp archery from both protagonists and antagonists.

I loved this film from start to finish. The story line was plausible, the plot was well developed and the characters were believable. The biggest bonus for me in this film is that the combat scenes/martial arts sequences were believable and realistic. So many of the recent films of this genre have had fight scenes which basically bordered on the ridiculous. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon for example was basically a choreographed high wire act for much of the movie and in honest, just a tad silly! Hopefully we will see more of this type of film from this part of the world. The only thing which was a bit weak was the tiger scenes. Possibly a little more resource could have been thrown at this? The soundtrack was also interesting. It did occasionally drift into very familiar Territory, i.e. you felt you'd heard that music in a similar type of movie?