Big Trouble vs Joint Security Area

Joint Security Area has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 6.1/10 for Big Trouble). Big Trouble is the shorter watch at 1h 25m compared with 1h 48m. Joint Security Area is the older of the two (2000 against 2002). Both are action, mystery, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Big Trouble posterBig Trouble2002 VS Joint Security Area posterJoint Security Area2000
Big TroubleJoint Security Area
Audience score★ 6.1/10★ 7.8/10
Year20022000
Length1h 25m1h 48m
GenresAction, Comedy, Mystery, ThrillerAction, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country–South Korea
DirectorBarry SonnenfeldPark Chan-wook
Main castPatrick Warburton, Omar Epps, Tim Allen, Jason Lee, Dennis FarinaLee Byung-hun, Shin Ha-kyun, Song Kang-ho, Ki Joo-bong, Lee Dae-yeon

Synopsis

Big Trouble

The story of how a mysterious suitcase brings together, and changes, the lives of a divorced dad, an unhappy housewife, two hitmen, a pair of street thugs, two love struck teens, two FBI men and a psychedelic toad. Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist Dave Barry's best-selling first novel, "Big Trouble."

Joint Security Area

Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an investigation by a neutral body. The sergeant is the shooter, but the lead investigator, a Swiss-Korean woman, receives differing accounts from the two sides.

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