Joint Security Area vs Kandahar
Joint Security Area has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 6.8/10 for Kandahar). Joint Security Area is the shorter watch at 1h 48m compared with 1h 59m. Joint Security Area is the older of the two (2000 against 2023). Both are action, thriller, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Joint Security Area
Kandahar| Joint Security Area | Kandahar | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.8/10 | ★ 6.8/10 |
| Year | 2000 | 2023 |
| Length | 1h 48m | 1h 59m |
| Genres | Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War | Action, Thriller, War |
| Country | South Korea | – |
| Director | Park Chan-wook | Ric Roman Waugh |
| Main cast | Lee Byung-hun, Shin Ha-kyun, Song Kang-ho, Ki Joo-bong, Lee Dae-yeon | Navid Negahban, Travis Fimmel, Ali Fazal, Bahador Foladi, Gerard Butler |
Synopsis
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.
Kandahar
After his mission is exposed, an undercover CIA operative stuck deep in hostile territory in Afghanistan must fight his way out, alongside his Afghan translator, to an extraction point in Kandahar, all whilst avoiding elite enemy forces and foreign spies tasked with hunting them down.
Where to watch
Where to watch Joint Security AreaWhere to watch Kandahar
More like Joint Security Area · More like Kandahar · Compare other titles