Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

tenshi_ippikiookami High, but-really-too-high, building, check. A Christmas party, check. Too many people, check. Bad weather, but we don't care because the party is more important, check. Security measures not taken care of because, really, what is going to happen?, check. Father with little child that is in love with a co-worker, check. An experienced fireman that should not be working but-actually-really-has-to, check. Some people that just seem to be there to sacrifice themselves for the tearful moment, check.For anything else, lots of explosions."The Tower" is what the title says: A tower. On fire. With lots of people inside. The plot is kept to a minimum: people running around, things exploding, glass breaking, jumps, and an angel. From the very beginning you can probably tell to yourself what is going to happen, and probably even in which order. The characters are cartoon-ish, the effects just OK, and you probably have seen anything that happens a million times.Then, what makes "The Tower" so much fun? For starters it keeps things happening non-stop, so the two hours feel like a breeze (yes, even if everything is on fire). The acting is good, and you have lots of famous actors doing a really good job with the simple material they are handed: stern leader, comic relief, protective worker, desperate father, selfish major... And the direction is good and has a clear focus. All of this works to make a movie that is really fun and that will keep the viewer on the edge of their seat.

Desertman84 The Tower a was remake of the 1974 American disaster classic,The Towering Inferno. It stars Mina Cho, Sang-kyung Kim, Sul Kyung-gu and Son Ye-jin. It is a disaster film that takes place in a 120-story luxurious landmark building called Tower Sky located at Seoul during Christmas Eve.The said film was definitely a great visual spectacle.Too bad that there is nothing more to it than that.The viewer will be definitely be amazed with the special effects and the CGI technology used in showing while the disaster unfolds to the point that one may feel that he gets an overdose on visual fireworks.Credit should definitely be given to Kim Ji-hoon for the amazing job he did in this film.Unfortunately.the special effects somewhat minimizes the emotions and the characterizations of the people involved in the story.The viewer may tend to overlook the story involved in the film and the great acting displayed by the talented Korean actors and actresses involved in the cast.Another thing that needs to be called out is the introduction of the characters involved in the screenplay during the first part of the film is overlong and somewhat cheesy.But nevertheless,it still manages to entertain despite its shortcomings.

RealBohemian This appears to be another movie given very positive reviews by people somehow connected with it; not much else could explain either the ten glowing reviews or why only one of the 13 even mentions the unbelievably sick "disaster" parameters in this shameful piece of junk. Forget that everyone from the kitchen help to the romantic interests to the fire fighters behave like a bad remake of laurel and hardy for the first 28 minutes. Forget that the movie is supposed to be an attempt to "update" a great Irwin Allen disaster movie from the beginning of the disaster movie era (if it is that, it is so only in a superficial manner).No, let's take a look at the black-hearted ugliness lying at the center of this film. I knew something was really wrong the moment I saw the films depiction of the highrise...now just why would someone remake The Towering Inferno using a bad CGI building that looks exactly like a cartoon version of the Twin Towers? I soon found out.Because, in essence, this flick is poking fun at what happened in NYC on 9/11.The fire starts a bit after half an hour into the film because a sudden updraft somehow manages to catch a bevy of helicopters flying around the twin towered high rise to drop artificial snow during the fireworks display highlighting the huge welcome tenants party in the upstairs ballroom...and cause them to go out of control and strike the building.The scenes of the actual strikes include some that so closely depict the fire starting across the line of windows it's stomach churning.The scenes of people screaming and running violently evoke what must have been happening after the terrorists' blammoed that first plane into the Twin Towers....The "solution" at the end involves a scene supposedly shot from above the building...showing a tower collapsing down upon itself....My feelings upon seeing that much are indescribable. I hope this review is voted near the top so that others who had some kind of involvement in that horror, lost people in it, or suffer from the reactions many Veterans like myself have upon just remembering (much less seeing it used in such a blatantly sick way)will be warned and stay away from it. I stopped the movie between 35 and 40 minutes in after seeing that yes, these sick freaks actually were using 9/11, and advanced it to near the end just to check whether or not they kept it up and found that horrifically pointed ending. I'd like to spare anyone else that knowledge of what some people out there are capable of doing.This movie is not a remake of The Towering Inferno, though it bears the same name as the book that movie was based upon. It is a sick pointed slyly vicious holding up of the horrors and losses in a comedified sort of gloat that frankly engenders an enduring negative view of Koreans.

jnc4251 This film is a "disaster movie" all right!! A huge DISASTER! The writing is absolutely horrid; one tired, unrealistic, silly cliché after another. The acting fits perfectly with the dialog; it is equally horrendous. And the "predictability factor" is off the charts; here's how predictable it is. Even if you HAVE NOT SEEN IT you know EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENS! How's that for predictability? However, the awful writing, the dreadful acting, and the predictable predictability are NOT what's worst about this film. The real repulsiveness comes from the shameless way this film takes from the TRUE DISASTER of 9/11/2001, right down to people putting up photos of loved ones on billboards along the sidewalk. It's shameless, exploitation, and unwatchable. The CGI was wonderful, but what an abject waste of technology. Don't see it. You've got better things to do.