Joint Security Area vs Max Payne

Joint Security Area has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 5.4/10 for Max Payne). Max Payne is the shorter watch at 1h 40m compared with 1h 48m. Joint Security Area is the older of the two (2000 against 2008). Both are action, drama, mystery movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Joint Security Area posterJoint Security Area2000 VS Max Payne posterMax Payne2008
Joint Security AreaMax Payne
Audience score★ 7.8/10★ 5.4/10
Year20002008
Length1h 48m1h 40m
GenresAction, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, WarAction, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country––
DirectorPark Chan-wookJohn Moore
Main castLee Byung-hun, Shin Ha-kyun, Song Kang-ho, Ki Joo-bong, Lee Dae-yeonAmaury Nolasco, Donal Logue, Mila Kunis, Ludacris, Olga Kurylenko

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.

Max Payne

A DEA agent whose family was slain as part of a conspiracy, and an assassin out to avenge her sister's death, join forces to solve a series of murders in New York City.

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